Labour

John Healey MP has told the Labour Party Conference that change is needed if people are to have a ‘safe, secure and affordable place they can call home’.

A Labour government would redefine affordable housing, suspend the Right to Buy scheme and ‘transform’ the planning system so it has a ‘duty’ to deliver affordable housing.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced that his party will review social housing policy and propose a ‘radical’ programme of action.

Amongst party election pledges, the Conservative Party says it will build a ‘new generation’ of social housing in England if it wins the general election on 8 June.