2 Quotes by Ben Tippet

By turning houses into property, they have failed to fulfil their function as homes: whether it's in the aftermath of the financial crisis in the US, evicting families to protect the profits of banks, or the selling off of council houses in the UK. in short, housing has become just another way for the richest inn society to get even richer.

The prison system fails at protecting communities from crime. It fails terribly at rehabilitating people. It's obscenely expensive - as the rapper and social critic, Akala, has pointed out, 'It costs more to send s child to prison than it does you send them to Eton'.So why does our failing and expensive system continue? In short, because it does a good job at punishing those at the bottom who step out of line.