Stephen has endorsed Labour’s policy that the Party will build over a million genuinely affordable council and social homes over 10 years.
Since 2010, local authorities have been prevented from building adequate social housing by the Tories and Lib Dems, with council budgets cut by £16bn since they came to power. This has caused the housing waiting lists to grow. Indeed, new figures show that in some London boroughs not a single social rented homes was built last year.
As well as building over a million genuinely affordable homes, a Labour government will also end the right to buy and give councils the new funding and powers they need to kick-start the biggest council house building programme in a generation; and scrap ‘no fault’ evictions, control rents for private renters and give councils new powers to enforce standards in the private rented sector.
Speaking after the launch of the manifesto, Stephen said: “After almost a decade of refusing to build council homes, it is pretty clear that the Tories can’t be trusted to fix the housing crisis. This is a message I will be telling local residents running up to election day.”