There is only one reason why we have such massive crisis in housings, that is the decisions of the 1979 Conservative Government to stop Local Councils building council housing, before then we were building 130,000 council homes a year. The then government said any short-fall in homes being built would be short lived as the private housebuilding industry would soon make up the difference. It never did if you look of a graph of housing construction it is plain that we have been short of approximately 130,000 new homes ever since so today we are short of approximately 4,000,000 homes. Also abolished, though this was done in a salami slicing fashion were Government rent controls, protection of tenant security laws the controlled tenancy contracts and specifically gave the grounds upon which tenants could be evicted after a Court had checked that the ground for eviction were meet? When the tenant contract now used for the vast majority of tenancy contracts, it was introduced it was for short let’s only holiday let’s etc. Why else call it ‘Shorthold’,
