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Today in Focus

New towns and old ideas: Labour’s housing plan

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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What are Labour’s proposals for fixing the housing crisis? Robert Booth reports from Hitchin, North Hertfordshire. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.0

Today, the next government needs radical plans to sort out the housing crisis.

0:16.0

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0:57.0

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1:01.0

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1:12.2

We've lived in hitching for 10 years. We've rented in all of that time. The last few years,

1:18.0

their rent has gone up dramatically. Last year our landlord proposed to put our rent up by 40% overnight.

1:28.0

That was incredibly difficult experience. If you make an issue with the landlord and you resist

1:36.2

potential rent increases and things like that ultimately they can no fault of it to you.

1:42.4

The worry was that not just we'd have to move, but we'd have

1:46.8

to move area, move our daughter out of school, and my wife works in the town and doesn't drive. So it was the whole thing of what do we do.

1:59.5

This is a man we're calling Andrew. He doesn't want to give his real name because though the

2:04.8

problems he's describing are relatable he's worried that complaining might make

2:09.8

things difficult with his landlord we've all been fed the dream by successive governments

2:16.6

of owning our own home and that's what Andrew and his family are hoping to do. But for now they're stuck renting.

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