Theresa May’s promise on affordable housing is emptier than her party’s conference
Congratulations to Theresa May, who has promised to invest an additional £2bn in affordable housing. Another empty promise.
According to the BBC: “The Conservative Party says that will fund the building of an additional 25,000 new homes for social rent, expected to be mainly council housing, over two years from 2019.
“In 2010-11, 39,570 additional homes were made available for social rent in England, either through being built or bought. In 2015-16 there were only 6,800 extra homes.”
Apparently that is not what the Tories said to the press at the conference, after Mrs May’s speech. It was as follows:
May team admit to press huddle that extra social housing money will build 25k homes over 5 years – so 5k a year. pic.twitter.com/0zdLMRwroO
— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) October 4, 2017
That's less than 5% of # who've been on council social housing waiting lists for 5yrs https://t.co/TBMPa5giQ5
— Labour Press (@labourpress) October 4, 2017
It’s also less than the amount built in 2015-16.
All in all, not much of a promise, is it?
Even if it were on top of the number built in 2015-16, or being built over two years – and we have no guarantee that developers will agree to help out…
It will not come anywhere near addressing the crisis in housing.
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No mention of this in her speech yesterday.
I wonder why.
https://speyejoe2.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/tories-sneak-out-announcement-of-4-64-billion-social-rent-increase/
Gone fifth of the Bing that she gave to DUP. Says oceans about what she thinks of the poor in the UK.
Tories are good at loudly trumpeting promises, but not good at carrying them out. I suspect any Council Housing that is built will be for the benefit of their chums and property speculators who will buy them at cut prices and rent them out to tenants at extortionate rents.
Well be fair they do have to knock down the hospitals to get the grounds to build them on first.
She is nothing but a liar and a witch
Affordable housing what about actual council homes to rent? government are always on about affordable housing but unless you can afford the mortgage nothing is affordable and the only option is a council home or other place that has similar rents!