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<p class="search_description">More than a million householders are using credit cards to stave off repossession and eviction. But the debt they run up can put their homes at greater risk – and the well-off are being hit for the first time. Tony Marshall reports.</p>
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<p class="search_description">Government plans to reform rent policy for social housing in England may be necessary, but are they badsed on the right formula? Steve Wilcox explains the background to the new policy and the pitfalls that lie in wait</p>
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<p class="search_description">Half of the poorest people in Britain are home owners, yet they get only 8 per cent of government housing support. It is time to end discrimination on the basis of tenure, says Steve Wilcox</p>
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