After seven years of failure, the Conservatives have no plan to fix the housing crisis - Healey

John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, commenting on new statistics showing that the number of government-funded social rented homes has fallen by 97 per cent since 2010, said:

"These disastrous figures show that Conservative Ministers have washed their hands of any responsibility to build the homes families on low and middle incomes need. The number of government-funded social rented homes built has plummeted by 97 per cent since 2010.

“After seven years of failure, the Conservatives have no plan to fix the housing crisis. A Labour government would invest in the affordable homes that the country needs."

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Notes to editors:

• ·         New figures released today by the Department for Communities and Local Government reveal that the number of new government-funded social rented homes built has fallen by 97 per cent from almost 37,000 in 2010/11 to just over 1,000 in 2016/17 [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/619756/Live_Table_1012.xlsx]
• ·         Labour’s housing manifesto – Labour’s New Deal on Housing – set out how a Labour government will invest in the affordable homes that the country needs [http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/PDFs/MIni-Housing-Manifesto.pdf]