MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing
Secretary, responding to
the 2018/19 English Housing Survey, said:
“The Conservatives didn’t want to talk about housing ahead
of the general election and the Government’s own statistics show
why. These figures confirm that the number of younger home-owners
has fallen dramatically since 2010, with over 800,000 fewer
households under 45 now owning their own home, and the number of
recent first-time buyers is falling.
“Meanwhile, over a million more households are renting from
a private landlord than a decade ago, including one in four
families with children.
“After 10 years of failure on housing, Conservative
Ministers have not built the council and social homes needed,
given renters the rights they deserve and helped young people on
ordinary incomes buy their first home. Labour will not let the
Tories get away with having no plan to fix the country’s housing
crisis.”
Ends
Notes to editors
The headline report for the English Housing Survey for
2018/19 has been released today: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2018-to-2019-headline-report.
It’s findings include:
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The number of under-45 households who own their own home
has fallen by 802,000 since 2009/10 (Household Tables, Annex
Table 1.4)
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The number of recent first time buyers has fallen
year-on-year for the first time in four years (Annex Table
1.6)
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The number of households renting from a private landlord
has risen by 1.2m since 2010 (Annex Table 1.1)
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One in four families with children (24%) now rent from a
private landlord (Annex Table 1.5)
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The number of private renters who expect to buy has
fallen from 58% to 55.8% in the last year, and is down from
60.4% in 2009/10 (Annex Table 1.11)
Labour has a 17 percentage point poll lead over the
Conservatives on housing: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2019-12/political-monitor-6-dec-2019-tables.pdf.
Labour’s plan for housing is here: www.labour.org.uk/housingmanifesto
