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  1. Published on: 19/04/2018 06:13 AMReported by: roving-eye
    Labour propose one million genuinely affordable homes with new definition of affordable housing linked to incomes.





    Today Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey will launch Labour’s affordable housing review and Green Paper consultation which proposes to build a million new genuinely affordable homes over 10 years, the majority for social rent, and a new definition of affordable housing linked to incomes.



    · In Lancashire, nearly 38,000 people are on social housing waiting lists while only 100 social housing dwellings were built in 16/17.



    · In the North West, over 180,000 people are on social housing waiting lists while only 440 social housing dwellings were built in 16/17. That means that for every house built there were another 411 people waiting for a home.



    The review sets out the Party’s aim to make affordable housing available to a broad range of people on ordinary incomes, including the ‘real middle’ of households that are currently too well-off for existing social housing, but struggle to afford to buy a home.



    It will also outline Labour's plans to build housing at a scale not seen since the 1970s.



    Amongst the proposals set out for consultation are:

    redefining ‘affordable housing’ by scrapping the Conservatives’ so-called ‘Affordable Rent’ at up to 80% of market rents, and introducing a new definition linked to incomes including: social rent, living rent and low-cost ownership
    a new ‘duty to deliver’ affordable housing for councils, with a new needs assessment and enhanced ‘new homes bonus’ for affordable housing
    a new English Sovereign Land Trust to make more land available, more cheaply
    new borrowing freedoms and central funding to get councils and housing associations building at scale
    a fully-fledged new Department for Housing, which will drive through our New Deal on housing.
    Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, said:



    “When housing has become a site of speculation for a wealthy few, leaving the many unable to access a decent, secure home, something has gone seriously wrong.



    “Luxury flats proliferate across our big cities, while social housing is starved of investment and too many people are living in dangerous accommodation at the mercy of rogue landlords.



    “We need to restore the principle that a decent home is a right owed to all, not a privilege for the few. And the only way to deliver on that right for everyone, regardless of income, is through social housing.



    “When the post-war Labour government built hundreds of thousands of council houses in a single term in office, they transformed millions of people’s lives.



    “This Green Paper will look at how to fix our broken housing system, so that it works for the many, not the few.”





    John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary, said:



    “The housing market is broken and current Conservative housing policy is failing to fix it. We have to build more affordable homes to make homes more affordable.



    “The Conservatives won’t do this, so the next Labour government must, by hardwiring Labour’s new affordable housing throughout the system, from housebuilding targets to investment priorities to planning rules.



    “This Green Paper sets out our plan to change the country’s approach to affordable housing as part of a new national mission to solve the country’s housing crisis.”
     
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  3. dav says:19/04/2018 07:14 AM
    The housing shortage is largely a result of mass ongoing immigration; something that Labour facilitated, encouraged and continues to be in favour of.

    Labour didn't build a single council house - not one! -in all the years it was last in power.

  4. Steve_728 says:19/04/2018 07:51 AM
    There are no Council Houses! The Tories gave them all away to profit making companies!
    Right to buy was a total disaster because the money went to central government and NOT into Council funds to build new houses.

  5. roughjustice says:19/04/2018 11:01 AM
    I can't help thinking that this is a subject being blown up out of proportion by the media and used as a political football by childish tit for tat MPs....

    I don't doubt it is hard to get on the housing ladder in recent years...

    BUT

    I have visions of someone building tens of thousands of houses and not being able to sell them..

    A SIGNIFICANT proportion of younger people I know and work with are quite comfortable with renting or living with parents (possibly until they inherit).

    Modern 'lifestyles' driven by the media and advertisers encourage especially the young to have the latest Tech gadgets (IPhone/tablet/games consoles etc updated annually), join a health club or Gym, holiday as much as possible, own new or nearly new German cars, 'Party hard' or eat out almost every night and spend, spend, spend, ...

    So I suggest a lot of young adults wouldn't want to give up their BMW mini/Audi A3/Golf etc or compromise their 'lifestyle' just to own their own house...Luxuries that home ownership precludes.

    Also how many under 30's can even put up a shelf or do some basic plumbing etc? B&Q etc have already acknowledge the skills fade and are trying in vain to run free basic skills training....

    Living with parents or renting an apartment etc saves a lot of expensive tradesman bills to them as someone else maintains the place..

    Paying a mortgage AND tradesmen every time something needs doing is a hassle many of them cringe at the thought of...

    I work with a lot of graduates fresh from Uni and even though on a good salary (admittedly with student loans to pay) many slip straight from Uni 'digs' to flat/house shares...Kids now are far less practical BUT more 'sociable' (as far as living with mates anyway).

    I suggest we are seeing a shift change more in line with most of Europe, in fact a lot of the world where home ownership as opposed to long term renting is not the obsession my and previous generations think it is.

  6. Sproggy the Cat says:19/04/2018 11:46 AM
    Its easy to promise building the housing that is required, but, if and when, in power that all seems to go by the wayside.
    Corbyn knows what the younger generation wants to hear even if there is no chance of producing it.

  7. Ceam says:19/04/2018 12:28 PM
    Every thing is easy, When your not the one in power having to do it. That goes for all parties not just Labour.
    You can promise the world when you don't have to deliver on it.

  8. paulollie says:19/04/2018 09:09 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by roughjustice View Post
    I can't help thinking that this is a subject being blown up out of proportion by the media and used as a political football by childish tit for tat MPs....

    I don't doubt it is hard to get on the housing ladder in recent years...

    BUT

    I have visions of someone building tens of thousands of houses and not being able to sell them..

    A SIGNIFICANT proportion of younger people I know and work with are quite comfortable with renting or living with parents (possibly until they inherit).

    Modern 'lifestyles' driven by the media and advertisers encourage especially the young to have the latest Tech gadgets (IPhone/tablet/games consoles etc updated annually), join a health club or Gym, holiday as much as possible, own new or nearly new German cars, 'Party hard' or eat out almost every night and spend, spend, spend, ...

    So I suggest a lot of young adults wouldn't want to give up their BMW mini/Audi A3/Golf etc or compromise their 'lifestyle' just to own their own house...Luxuries that home ownership precludes.

    Also how many under 30's can even put up a shelf or do some basic plumbing etc? B&Q etc have already acknowledge the skills fade and are trying in vain to run free basic skills training....

    Living with parents or renting an apartment etc saves a lot of expensive tradesman bills to them as someone else maintains the place..

    Paying a mortgage AND tradesmen every time something needs doing is a hassle many of them cringe at the thought of...

    I work with a lot of graduates fresh from Uni and even though on a good salary (admittedly with student loans to pay) many slip straight from Uni 'digs' to flat/house shares...Kids now are far less practical BUT more 'sociable' (as far as living with mates anyway).

    I suggest we are seeing a shift change more in line with most of Europe, in fact a lot of the world where home ownership as opposed to long term renting is not the obsession my and previous generations think it is.
    Good God reasoned comment and there isn't a lot of that on this site..... Ever.

  9. abbeyroad says:20/04/2018 08:47 AM
    Is there anything that this bloke does NOT promise to spend money on?



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