Andrew Rawnsley on property
June 5th, 2011
The last couple of years have seen a plethora of articles about the lack of new house building and Andrew Rawnsley tackles the subject in some depth in today’s Observer.
The social housing sold off by Mrs Thatcher was never replaced. House building in the last year of Gordon Brown fell to a postwar low. We are currently building around 100,000 homes a year when new household formation is running at about 250,000.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/05/andrew-rawnsley-house-prices-construction
This all ties in with my other articles on right to buy and the sink estates but there is no sign of any political party even beginning to tackle this important issue anytime soon and worse now is the pressure on the outer boroughs of London as the housing benefit cuts begin to be felt forcing people in both council and private rented housing from the centre.
Karen Buck spoke eloquently on Thursday evening at the Barking and Dagenham CLP with a talk about the likely effects of the HB cuts, and will do so again on the 11th June at the London Labour Housing Group policy day. There’s still time to book.