Hilary Benn (Leeds Central) (Lab): I beg to move,
That this House notes that the Government has failed to
tackle the acute housing shortage which is central to the cost of living crisis
and over the last three years has presided over the lowest level of new homes
built since the 1920s, with home ownership falling, rents at record highs and
rising faster than wages and a record five million people in the queue for
social housing; further notes that net housing supply under this Government has
fallen to its lowest level since records began, and that affordable housing
supply dropped in the last year by 26 per cent, homes built for social rent
dropped to a 20-year low, while there has been a 104 per cent increase in
in-work housing benefit claimants since 2009; believes that the Government
should take action to tackle the housing shortage; and calls on the Government
to boost housing supply by reforming the development industry and introducing
measures to tackle landbanking, bringing forward plans to deliver a new
generation of New Towns and Garden Cities and giving local authorities a new
right to grow to deliver the homes their communities need.
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