Brown pledges ￡200m to buy empty homes
Inside Housing - UK
By Tom Lloyd The government is to give ￡200 million to the Housing Corporation to buy developers' hard-to-shift homes in a bid to prop up the struggling ...

DO THEY REALLY EXPECT PEOPLE TO LIVE LIKE THIS?
Wirral Globe
The bricks from a destroyed wall block an entire alleyway. Scorch marks scar the sides of burnt out houses. Windows stand open without panes or boards, the ceilings inside, upstairs and down, gaping with wrenched holes.