I agree with Councillor Craig Turton (Letters, June 19) that Brighton and Hove City Council should aim to provide more affordable housing but key worker schemes to help nurses and teachers to buy will not solve the continuing housing crisis.
One third of full-time workers in the city earn less than £250 per week and cannot get anywhere near to buying an "affordable" studio flat.
In my work as an adult education teacher, I meet people with important and responsible jobs who cannot get a look-in on buy-to-rent schemes such as that run by MOAT Housing Trust.
One, an unqualified psychiatric nurse, was told her income was insufficient despite having a £30,000 deposit.
We need more council houses and to reverse the Government's stupid policy of privatising what few local authority homes remain.
-Ruth Arundell, Defend Council Housing, ruth@rarundell.freeserve.co.uk
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