LIB DEMS IN GOVERNMENT WILL INCREASE AFFORDABLE HOMES.
October 27, 2010 7:00 PM
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Communities Minister Andrew Stunell has today announced that Liberal Democrats in government will deliver the biggest net increase in social housing in thirty years.
In a speech in a debate on housing in the House of Commons, Mr Stunell attacked the previous Labour's government's record, and outlined coalition plans to provide 150,000 affordable homes over the next four years.
The new housing plan will deliver a net increase in the affordable housing stock, and will reverse a thirty year downward trend under previous administrations. Labour and Conservative governments alike have, since 1979, presided over a reduction in the stock of affordable homes, with each party selling off more homes than they built.
There were 400,000 fewer homes after the Tories 18 years in power, and a further 45,530 fewer after Labour's 13 years in power. Even Labour's new Leader, Ed Miliband, admits that Labour failed on social housing.
In a pamphlet for the Fabian Society during the recent Leadership Election, he wrote "We [Labour] refused to prioritise the building of new social housing
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