The recent cuts in state housing expenditure are reviewed and placed in the context of the economic crises and growth of owner occupation. It is suggested that owner occupation does not even provide a capitalist solution to the housing crisis and a radical transformation of both council housing and owner occupation is argued for through programmes associated with nationalisation of land and the building industry.
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