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Delegates pressure Sir Keir to back new wave of council housing
Parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt
DELEGATES at the Labour Party conference put pressure on Sir Keir Starmer today to commit to building a new wave of council housing.
Calls for fully funded councils to build 150,000 new social-rent homes each year, including 100,000 council homes, were included in a motion – which passed by show of hands as the Morning Star went to press – tabled by the Labour Housing Group.
The motion also proposed an end to the “right to buy” scheme in order to protect existing stock, a review of council housing debt to address the underfunding of housing revenue accounts, a right to adequate housing to be enshrined in law, and the establishment of a “housing first” system aimed at ending homelessness.
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