MP, Labour's Shadow Secretary
of State
for Housing, responding to ONS data showing a sharp
increase in house price per square metre since 2010,
said:
“Britain’s
housing crisis is a housing costs crisis for many people, as this
report confirms. With the cost of buying and renting racing ahead
of income rises, millions of younger people feel locked out of
the housing market.
“Yet fewer
new homes have been built under this Tory-led government since
2010 than with any peacetime government since the 1920s. These
new official figures are yet another indictment of failing
housing policy and a failing housing
market.
“Even
admits seven years of
Conservative failure on housing was a big part of why her Party
did so badly in the Election, yet she has no plan to fix the
housing crisis.
"People
whose lives are blighted by Britain’s broken housing market
rightly expect Government to act but it’s only Labour’s long-term
plan for a consumer rights revolution for renters, new discount
homes for first time buyers and the big-scale building programme
of genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy that will tackle
the country’s housing crisis."
Ends
Notes to
editors:
Failure on building new
homes
-
Since 2010 with Conservative Ministers
in office our country has built the fewest homes per year
than under any political party in peacetime since the
1920s.
House
of Commons library research, September
2016
Failure on
home-ownership
-
Almost 200,000 fewer
home-owning households since 2010.
Failure on affordable
homes
-
Last year the Conservatives
built the fewest affordable homes for 24 years. Ministers cut
government funding for affordable homes by 60% in
2010.
-
The number of genuinely
affordable homes for social rent started last year was fewer
than 1,000, compared to 40,000 started in Labour’s last year in
government.
DCLG, Affordable Housing Starts and
Completions, 2 March 2017
-
Conservative Ministers have
failed to deliver one-for one replacements for homes sold
through the Right-to-buy - instead only one is being built for
every five sold.
