It's not a coincidence that Brighton and Hove suffers from high rents and insecure housing, resulting in eight families a day becoming homeless. (The Argus, November 12).

We also have a very small proportion of council housing compared with other cities.

Council housing provides security of tenure and low rents and would be self-financing if successive governments had not robbed it to subsidise other departments.

Brighton and Hove is now spending its "major repairs allowance", a concession wrung from the current government by campaigners.

This shows that, contrary to recent claims that it was becoming "increasingly unviable", the future for council housing looks much brighter than it did when Defend Council Housing began its campaign.

-Ruth Arundell, Defend Council Housing, Brighton