Brokenshire busted: Tories’ ‘pitiful’ social housing strategy has no new money for housebuilding
Busted: James Brokenshire.
This is the reason families are sleeping next to dustbins and their children’s head teachers are relying on charities to help them.
As Jeremy Corbyn has pointed out: “You can’t build new social housing without any new money.
“Labour will build the homes we desperately need.”
The Tories’ “pitiful” new social housing strategy fails to commit a “single extra penny” toward constructing new homes, campaigners have warned.
Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said a Green Paper introduced today would help re-balance the relationship between tenants and landlords and help tenants get on the housing ladder.
But Labour said it was “pitiful” that the long-awaited proposals committed no new money towards building new social homes.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said the paper “does little to address the fundamental lack of low-cost rented homes”.
And the Local Government Association (LGA) warned the announcement was “only a small step, compared with the huge and immediate need for more genuinely affordable homes”.
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