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16/02/2009
Housing laws are 'unfair' |
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A human rights campaigner has reportedly branded Jersey's housing laws as prejudiced.
Before being able to purchase a property in Jersey, someone has to have lived on the island for 12 years, while there are also restrictions on what category of house people can live in.
According to This is Jersey, 85 per cent of the island's population qualified to purchase or lease property there through a period of residence, as dictated by the Housing Law of 1949 and the 1970 regulations.
Jersey deputy Bob Hill says that such laws could also be stunting the island's growth.
He told the BBC that he has never been happy with the area's residential housing law as "it is discriminatory".
The campaigner questioned: "Why should someone be deemed, because of their work or the role they are playing in the island, be given the right to rent when others don't have that right?"
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