{"id":253383,"date":"2024-08-03T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=253383"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:00:05","slug":"closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/closed-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over three hundred thousand people in England alone are homeless. This is the worst part of the housing crisis, but the problem extends well beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>There was a report recently about a woman who earns \u00a350,000 a year and cannot buy a house; rent and bills take two-thirds of her income. It has been claimed that only one in eight renters can afford to buy where they live. Not even a half of those earning over \u00a370,000 (twice the average wage) could afford to buy in their local area.<\/p>\n<p>The house-building industry under capitalism exists to make a profit, not to meet human need, which would be the aim of housing in a Socialist society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-253383","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/253383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}