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1:02Now PlayingI grew up in a council house in Cumbria.
Their purpose was to stabilise the lives of a working class which up until then had been dependent on the whims of private landlords.
But in the 1970s a change was made to the law which made it a statutory obligation to house not the traditional working family, but those deemed to be in most immediate need of housing.
It is this law which explains why an immigrant who comes here illegally and may end up homeless is often put to the front of the queue for housing, even before local people.
As with everything, there are specific legal reasons for the dilemma we’re in.
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