labourpress:

John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, commenting on new Government statistics showing a 98 per cent fall in new social rented homes, said:

“After seven years of Tory failure on housing, homelessness has doubled, home-ownership has fallen to a 30-year low and the number of new genuinely affordable homes being built has fallen off a cliff.

“These shocking new figures show that in the six months before the Chancellor’s so-called ‘housing Budget’, the number of new Government-funded homes for social rent fell by 98 per cent compared to Labour’s last year in office.

“It’s time Ministers supported Labour’s plan to build 100,000 low-cost homes to rent and buy a year, including backing councils to build again.”