Labour should commit to establishing 20 New Towns if it wants to tackle the housing crisis
New Towns are a phenomenally successful Labour economic success story. They created communities where 2.8 million people now live.
New Towns are a phenomenally successful Labour economic success story. They created communities where 2.8 million people now live.
High prices are a barrier to home ownership, but no party has explained how it is going to reduce them and what the consequences of that may be.
‘A quarter of Tory MPs are landlords and a fifth of all Tory Party donations are made by property companies.’
The Centre for Cities estimates that the UK is missing 4.3 million homes compared to other European countries.
We have called for the Local Housing Allowance to be unfrozen so that benefits are more closely aligned with the rate of rent in an area
‘Brownfield sites alone will “almost certainly never be enough to meet the country’s housing need”.
‘With new blood coming into politics and policymaking, pro-housing stances are now finally being taken’
‘Labour must offer a social housing funding mechanism that not only provides new supply, but tackles the systemic need for rehabilitation of existing stock.’
My constituency office which (like other MPs) deals with local people’s concerns, has been inundated with cases of mould in flats and houses, many of them leading to ill-health.
‘Research by the housing charity Shelter show that every 7 minutes in England, a Section 21 notice is served to a household.’