VOTE2019 Housing
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Rather than austerity we could have had investment in a large scale
council house building programme, creating homes and decent work
Steve Turner Unite AGS
Labour pledges to end misery of the housing crisis
Unite members have welcomed Labour’s policies to end the housing crisis.
The election of a Labour government that will make building at least 100,000 social housing homes a year and rental reform a priority would be a welcome relief to the millions struggling with over-priced rents or living in cramped or unsuitable accommodation.
Research commissioned by the National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, found that 3.6m people in England live in an overcrowded
dwelling while 2.5m cannot afford their mortgage or rent.
Another 2.5m live in “hidden households” they are unable to vacate, such as grown children living with parents, house shares and people living with an ex-partner.
Home ownership rates for people under 35 are less than half that of two decades ago and a million families are stuck waiting for council housing.
At the most impoverished end of the 30 uniteWORKS Winter 2019
housing spectrum, a record number of homeless people in England and Wales died last year – an estimated 726 – an increase of 22 per cent on the year before, with fatalities estimated to be even higher this year.
Meanwhile just 6,463 social housing units were built in England in 2017/18, compared to the 30,000 built just ten years ago.
Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner was clear that the Conservatives are responsible for the lack of decent
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