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It s the latest chapter on the bampton estate. it s over 55s can move in there. what difference would it make to your life, if you could get in there? i would have a lot more room, wouldn t i, and we could have family and friends. it would be brand new. i can t see the roofs leaking. so it would be ideal, really. the flats will be offered at what are called affordable rents they re almost twice as high as council rents. that s because councils don t have enough cash to build cheaper social housing. ultimately, we need policy that deals with the short and the long term. we do need to build more social housing, there s just no getting away from that. we need to see a really serious commitment and it needs to be backed by funding ....
That s because councils don t have enough cash to build cheaper social housing. ultimately we need policy that deals with the shot we do need to build more social housing, there s just no getting away from that. we need to see a really serious commitment and it needs to be backed by funding from government. a0 years of housing policy have left our estates in crisis. we are absolutely going backwards because the cost of private rentals is far higher than the social equivalent, so people are paying more to live in worse conditions. the system isn t working. the bampton estate has seen government policies come and go, but people are still living in unfit homes. ....