In a statement, the Department for Work and Pensions said: "The removal of the spare room subsidy is returning fairness to housing when in England alone there are nearly two million households on the social housing waiting list and over a quarter of a million tenants are living in overcrowded homes.
"Peace on earth, equality, fairness, good housing," I said.
Whether it is wage fairness, equitable housing programs, or better access to financial services for the unbanked or underbanked, banks should be forceful advocates for public policy that allows for the creation of financial opportunity up and down the economic ladder.
A Treasury spokesman said: "This government is already taking strong action to ensure fairness in the housing market and help people on to the housing ladder.
We're also aware of how fucked we are: when judging the fairness of the housing system on a scale from 0 (not fair at all) to 10 (completely fair), nearly a third (29percentt) scored 0. Only 5percentt of young people gave a score over 5, meaning that 95percentt of you think the housing system is unfair.
In the civil rights field, Mr. Gertz long championed black lawyers' efforts to join bar associations, and in the 1940's and 50's battled for fairness in Chicago housing.
Quick passage of the Housing Fairness Act of 2009 would be one important step in that direction.
Second, we need to restore fairness to the housing market, providing a real solution to the foreclosure crisis and providing realistic opportunities to become homeowners.
But one critical concrete step that Congress could take now to move us closer to the goal of truly integrated and balanced living patterns would be passage of the Housing Fairness Act of 2009.
When she decided to run for Congress, she had been excited to talk about the things that inspired her: consumer protection, housing fairness, women's rights, her menteeship under Warren.
