Number of new affordable homes being built plunges amid housing emergency
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Number of new affordable homes being built plunges amid housing emergency

Thousands fewer affodable homes were built over the last three years, figures have revealed.

The number of new affordable homes being built has fallen for the third year in a row amid an ongoing national housing emergency, figures show. More

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Protests and counter protests held outside asylum hotels in Scotland

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