Do People Matter Most Or Does Property?

I find it unsurprising that the government offers victims 5000 pounds to pay for funerals and housing but does nothing direct to help re-locate them, leaving them to sleep outside.  Jeremy Corbyn's proposal is a brilliant piece of linguistic framing.  The system will of course find it impossible to "requisition" vacant housing.  They simply do not know how to take from the rich.  Go figure.

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Corbyn said the following:

It cannot be acceptable that in London you have luxury buildings and luxury flats kept as land banking for the future while the homeless and the poor look for somewhere to live.”
And in an interview on ITV on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said the flats could be requisitioned by the government or bought using compulsory purchase orders.
Occupy it, compulsory purchase it, requisition it – there’s a lot of things you can do.
“But can’t we as a society just think, it’s all very well putting our arms around people during the crisis but homelessness is rising, the housing crisis is getting worse and my point was quite a simple one.
In an emergency, you have to bring all assets to the table in order to deal with that crisis and that’s what I think we should be doing in this case.”
“Every day at Heathrow, planes get delayed. Hundreds of people get stranded at airports all over the world,” he said.
Hotels are found for them immediately, they are sorted out. Four-hundred-or-so people, still most of them have not got somewhere decent, safe or secure to stay in.
Somehow or other, it seems to be beyond the wit of the public services to deal with the crisis facing a relatively small number of people in a country of 65 million

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