The housing crisis
Alastair Cameron writes about a gathering at Woodbrooke that considered the chronic housing crisis in the UK today
‘Housing crisis? Surely Syrian refugees constitute a crisis; housing may be a problem for a few, but it’s not the same.’
I encountered this comment a few weeks ago, as I attempted to explain – yet again – today’s UK housing problems. I’ve heard it again since, in a debate in the Scottish parliament and in a depressingly smug analysis by Simon Jenkins in The Guardian (30 September 2015).
Yearly Meeting 2015 considered housing as an integral part of ‘the evil of social and economic injustice which creates a world in which the wrong things are valued’. Why so? Our house offers us not only shelter, but a home, a place of comfort and refuge, where we bring up our children and offer hospitality to friends.
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