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Social apartheid?
‘Social apartheid’ stalks cities

By politics.co.uk staff Segregation between affluent and deprived communities in Britain’s cities is reaching ‘apartheid’ levels, a new report has claimed. Progressive thinktank the Fabian Society argues that tenants in born in the 1970s are suffering under a form of social apartheid completely alien to their post-war predecessors. Report author James Gregory said by the… Read more »

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Margaret Beckett, housing minister
Housing support comes online today

By politics.co.uk staff New support for people struggling to make their mortgage payments will become available today. The new Homeowners Mortgage Support (HMS) fund comes online today, with housing minister Margaret Beckett promising the money will come to the aid of families suffering a temporary loss of income. A household which has its working hours… Read more »