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NICOLA STURGEON focused on Scotland’s housing crisis, education and poverty alleviation as she outlined the SNP’s 2016 manifesto in the opening address to the party's conference in Aberdeen. Among the initiatives put across to conference, Sturgeon promised to build new houses in an attempt to tackle Scotland’s escalating homelessness crisis. Sturgeon said that the SNP has created “ a new generation of council house building. And we have taken steps to safeguard social housing for the future by abolishing the right to buy. ” She added: “ We must now go further and we will. I am therefore announcing today a bold new commitment. If we are re-elected next May, our target in the next parliament will be to build at least 50,000 new affordable homes .” The first minister kicked off her conference address with a message about the exponential growth of the party: “ The scale of our conference this week is simply awesome. “Last year, by conference, our membership had grown fro...