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Why Labour is Opposed to the Housing Bill ?

John Healy shadow housing secretary & Sadiq Khan Labour london Mayor Candidate 2016  By  John Healy When the Commons debates the government’s new housing and planning bill tomorrow, people will start to see that the Tories’ housing plans are driven by the politics of the Conservative party, not by the housing needs of the country. Ministers talk about building more houses and helping people become homeowners. But this hides the truth that their housing record is five years of failure on every front. Home ownership has fallen every year since 2010 and is now at the lowest rate in a generation. The Conservatives have overseen the lowest number of homes built under any government since the 1920s and the lowest number of genuinely affordable homes for two decades. Homelessness is rising; private rents have soared. John Healy MP Shadow Housing Minster : speaking on housing at recent Labour Party conference  So in a political panic about falling...