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• Airbnb donates £1.25m to English Heritage to ‘boost heritage tourism’

  21-10-2022 15:08
  Housing campaigner says rental giant’s donation is a ‘cultural greenwashing’ to offset their poor publicity over the housing crisisEnglish Heritage has accepted a £1.25m donation from Airbnb to support its bid to “boost heritage tourism” and to continue the conservation of the UK’s most important historical attractions and houses.The donation to the charity, which acts as a custodian to the country’s architectural legacy, follows the launch of the
  
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• We can build enough homes for everyone in England. So why don’t we? | John Boughton

  21-10-2022 07:00
  As a country, we have produced sufficient affordable housing at pace and scale in the past when the political will was thereThe politics of Liz Truss’s government make it unlikely we’ll see a significant new expansion of social rented housing any time soon. But not so long ago another Conservative prime minister, Theresa May, talked of the need for “a new generation of council homes to help fix our broken housing market”. Opposition parties and the UK’s devolved gov
  
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