Friday, 27 September 2019

Survey Shows Social Housing Could Unify Post Brexit UK


Government’s getting it wrong on home ownership when it could pitch a post-Brexit unifier in the building of more council homes, a new survey shows. The YouGov survey, commissioned by Shelter, found that increasing the supply of social homes for rent was the top housing demand among ‘Leaver’ Labour supporters. But that’s before Labour got there first with a conference policy commitment in principle to building 155,000 social rented council homes a year over 20 years – towards that 3m. Shelter’s subsequent analysis of the YouGov poll found that while the Tories have prioritised homeownership for a long time, there are political gains for the party over social housing. Read more on 24housing.

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