Responding to Labour’s plans to build more homes, Adrian Ramsay, Co-Leader of the Green Party, said: “We are in a housing crisis that leaves many without the basic security of a safe and warm home”.
“This crisis though is an affordability crisis.
“There are a million empty homes, and a million homes that planners have allowed but developers haven’t built – too often in order keep prices high.
“Meanwhile, we have over a million households on council waiting lists and more than 130,000 children are growing up in temporary accommodation.
“This is why Labour’s plan to hand more power and profits to private developers is flawed.
“Where is the incentive for private developers to build the affordable and accessible homes needed?
“Instead, we will get large executive houses on greenfield sites or luxury city flats.
“Planning reform is a distraction from Labour’s failure to step up and fund the real answers to the housing crisis, including large-scale investment in truly affordable, sustainable council housing.”
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