Housing isn’t a crisis, but an emergency

A passionate debate at UNISON’s national delegate conference saw the union put forward a range of measures to tackle the housing crisis – or, as one speaker put it, the “housing emergency”.
The debate in Liverpool, which continued over two days saw Gasimo from Islington report that “there are 170,000 homeless families in London alone”. It’s a problem that “affects health, family life and child development”.
Given that, “it’s not a