We look back on a year of escalating protests over dwindling social housing supply and a Tory focus on homeownership despite booming costsThe new year brought housing inequality into sharp focus,particularly in the capital. With homelessness rising, the average house price 16 times the average Londoner’s salary, and five million people on housing waiting lists,and the social housing stock having fallen by 43850 in 2013-14, tenants, and trade unionists and housing campaigners marched on London City corridor on 31 January in protest.
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Source: theguardian.com