Section: Housing Policy
Conservative's housing manifesto pledges an additional 500,000 houses by 2020
Posted 18.05.17
Conservatives: Article link
The Party's Party's manifesto, released 18th May, includes:
- We will meet our 2015 commitment to deliver a million homes by the end of 2020 and we will deliver half a million more by the end of 2022.
- We will deliver the reforms proposed in our Housing White Paper to free up more land for new homes in the right places.
- We will enter into new Council Housing Deals with ambitious, pro-development, local authorities to help them build more social housing.
- We will also give greater flexibility to housing associations to increase their housing stock.
- We will build new fixed-term social houses, which will be sold privately after ten to fifteen years with an automatic Right
to Buy for tenants.
- We will set up a new homelessness reduction taskforce that will focus on prevention and affordable housing, and we will pilot a Housing First approach to tackle rough sleeping.
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Labour's housing policy update pledges one million new homes in five years
Posted 10.05.17
Jeremy Corbyn: Article link
The Labour Party's policy updates includes:
"We will build a million new homes in five years, with at least half a million council homes, through our public investment strategy.
"We will end insecurity for private renters by introducing rent controls, secure tenancies and a charter of private tenants' rights, and increase access to affordable home ownership"
Jeremy Corbyn's plans for tackling the country's housing crisis include investment in council housing with a focus on private sector rent regulation and strengthening tenants' rights with a key assurance to support homes for vulnerable people and disabled people.
