It is the basic foundation for our lives, so what would the next prime minister do to deliver this for everyone?
In the mid-80s, I took part in a small film that showed the plight of people forced to sleep rough in “cardboard city” on the South Bank. I was deeply moved by the testimonies of those living there, and now, 40 years later, that empathy has turned to anger as successive governments have failed to deliver enough social housing and bring down homelessness.
It’s vital that our next government acknowledges the housing crisis and the people being pushed into becoming homeless. How are the parties going to address these twin crises? I put a series of questions to Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Ed Davey on how they plan to build more housing and tackle homelessness should they form the next government.
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