Build new homes

SINCE Mrs Thatcher’s council house sell-off, no government has replaced that lost stock.

The houses being built today are for sale, though many can’t afford to get on the property ladder.

What is really needed is affordable, decent houses to rent.

They don’t need to be built in small villages, on the green belt or agricultural land, which is happening all over the country.

The baby boomers’ houses may be assets, but they are also our homes.

Why should we have to move or downsize when successive governments have failed in their duty to build low-cost dwellings?

Mrs e. HarrINGTON, Bognor regis, W. Sussex.