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Ones roof that belongs to a Victor- ing all housing above mi one The situation in the and this figure is growi ncil private sector is no better. every day. The Tories hor in't There are a vast number of improvement grants seem len people living in properties be making a molehill out OSS that are 'unfit for human ha- this mountain. In 1981/s1 i of bitation'. It is difficult to planned imporvement exp iny assess the full extent of the diture was £367 million, j' art- problem as the Government is 3% of the backlog, it see of hiding it. Having realised like a token response to a s •Support us.

Fighter speaker to come and address my LPYS, YCND class Fighter supporter and enclose £5 (waged) or £1 (unwaged). (This Fighter newsletters, mailings, a supporter's caro, etc. THE Tory government's housing policy reduces to one simple idea: the right and expectations of people to a place to live should be destroyed, (along with, of course, the rights to an education and a job). Increasingly if you can't afford to pay private landlords exorbitant rent, then you will join the hundreds of thousands already homeless. • The facts speak for themselves -80,000 households registered as homeless. Possibly as many again are not aounted along with many single people and childless couples not even considered in official statistics.

-Over 1 million overcrowded houses -Over 2 million households share with others ince they have no home of their own.

-1¼ million on waiting lists for counicl houses.

While this is going on, the government is selling council houses, and cutting back public funds for Council house building. The human misery and tragedy behind these statistics must be appreciated. We must not forget the causes of the problem, the systematic attack by the Tories on the rights of working people and their obsession with profit.

The Tories policy of council house sales in obviously disastrous for anyone looking for a home.

-Council houses are sold to enants at up to 50% discount so that the homes sold will never be replaced -the best bomes are being sold: less that 2% of sales are flats, the rest are houses with gardens that will never again be available to young families with children at prices they can afford.

Prople can hardly be blamed for taking up the offers of Council house saels, when the mortgage repayments are often less thán the rent. Labour Councils must fight the Tories -No council house sales!

-No cuts on building programmes!

-No increases in rents and rates!

-Houses for those who need them at pri es they can afford!

So the Tories' arguments for trying to get rid of the public housing stocks are : the simple money saving o they'd have us believe. " attack is an ideological ‹ on the very idea of cour housing. ( The Tories de like the state providing wl there's a chance for their b friends to make a buck out the service. And since ma people cannot afford mr gages, a large proportion the population will beco dependent on the sharks their offices above shops w explit those who have no, tion but go to their agency.

As availability of council housing decreases more and more people, the young, old and the unemployed, y find long waiting lists council houses and no r want a subscription to Class Fighter, would like more information about Class would like a Class enclose details.

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Branch.... me in ho op411u the will for oof not over their head, or at best The ain slum.

the number was on the realitv it was increasing Of the 1 premises, owned and It vate landlord how criminally bad the figures were in 1931, the government 'adjusted' the figures for 1976 to make it seem as if of unfit houses decline when in .2 million unfit . 100,000 are inted out, by priFighter's policies and activities.

That national bill for pu mum standards is £25 billic ious problem.

The Tories have interest in seeing people • ittnion, ing me to of the enust ms ¡eIno de-