Tory Councillor Jenny Langston has a bit of a cheek criticising Brighton and Hove City Council for putting homeless people in a former budget hotel (The Argus, November 21).

As there is a dire shortage of council houses and flats - because the Tories sold them off dirt cheap - and sky-high private rents abound locally, where does she think these people could be put in the short term?

-A Bruggi, Clifton Road, Brighton