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Karen Buck is the Labour Member of Parliament for Westminster North and Shadow Education Minister. She served as Member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North (Central London) between 1997 and 2010. Karen was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Transport from May 2005 - March 2006. She has been a Regional Assistant to the Minister for London, a member of the Select Committee for Home Affairs and a member of the Select Committee for Children, Schools and Families.

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Selling Off Social Housing Doesn't Make Sense

(1) Comments | Posted 20 August 2012 | (15:06)

The suggestion by the Policy Exchange think-tank that social housing in valuable areas should be sold and the profits used to build more homes in cheaper places, re-hashes an old argument but predictably grabbed the headlines.

Doesn't it make sense, with 4.5 million people in housing need, to...

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