Extract from Queen's Speech debate (Lords) - Oct 17
Friday, 18 October 2019 07:33
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab):...Housing associations share
the Government’s commitment to help more families into home
ownership. Over the next five years, they will support record
numbers into shared ownership, working in partnership with local
and national government. But a shift by this Administration towards
further emphasis on home ownership would be a mistake, if it comes
at the expense of social housing. That is where most progress is
needed. Research from the National...Request free trial
(Lab):...Housing associations share the Government’s commitment to
help more families into home ownership. Over the next five years,
they will support record numbers into shared ownership, working in
partnership with local and national government. But a shift by this
Administration towards further emphasis on home ownership would be
a mistake, if it comes at the expense of social housing. That is
where most progress is needed. Research from the National Housing
Federation reveals that we should be building 145,000 affordable
homes each year for the next 10 years to fix the broken housing
market. The NHS, Shelter, Crisis, the CPRE and the CIH have made a united call
for investment of £12.8 billion a year, for 10 years, to do this.
Imagine the political return from that. We last made a commitment
on that scale under a hero of the current Prime Minister, Sir
Winston Churchill...
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