AN Edinburgh City Council candidate for the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) has declared council house building the party’s core priority.Richard Shillcock, who will contest the by-election in the Southside/Newington ward, slammed decades of market-driven housing policy which left both the capital and Scotland at large facing a housing emergency.“There is only one answer to it — build council houses,” he said.“We need the council to build, own, maintain, and administer council housing and not leave such an important issue to the free market.

AN Edinburgh City Council candidate for the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) has declared council house building the party’s core priority.

Richard Shillcock, who will contest the by-election in the Southside/Newington ward, slammed decades of market-driven housing policy which left both the capital and Scotland at large facing a housing emergency.

“There is only one answer to it — build council houses,” he said.

“We need the council to build, own, maintain, and administer council housing and not leave such an important issue to the free market.

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