Unfortunately for Ivor Caplin (Our Children Are Caught In A Poverty Trap, June 25), poor people have a better grip on reality than he does.

They know "confidence in the economy" depends on there being a lot of relatively poor people who can't afford to buy houses.

Some loss of confidence on the part of Brighton and Hove's private landlords would help lower rents and would thus be a very good thing.

-Ruth Arundell, Defend Council Housing, Brighton