Labour need to learn from housing demolition disaster

Venmore Street, Anfield, Liverpool

Labour must learn lessons from their disastrous £2.2.bn housing demolition policy, which bought up and bulldozed over 30,000 affordable homes across northern England since 2003.

SAVE say the programme imposed widespread dereliction and evictions on the working class communities it was supposed to assist, and must not be repeated should the party return to power.

To read more and to see colour pictures please read the PDF press release

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PDF press release 1 October 2012: Labour Need to Learn from Demolition Disaster

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