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Newham housing situation is a legacy of Margaret Thatcher's policy on rent

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 (on April 24, 2012)
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Plans to move residents outside of London are the result of cuts to councils' budgets and the ending of rent controls in the 1980s

Newham council's problem is painfully apparent: it is an..


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