The party leader thinks the Government's biggest failure is the Housing Disaster
Image via Twitter (@ivanabacik)The Labour Party is calling for one million homes to be delivered in the next 10 years.
Ivana Bacik made the call in her first party conference speech as leader, as she hit out at the current government's failing policy.
She says the Labour plan to combat the housing crisis would involved building 50 thousand new homes and refurbishing 50 thousand homes every year for 10 years.
Deputy Bacik says the government completely lacks the ambition that's needed:
"And we know from the government's own housing commission that the targets in the 'Housing for All' programme fall far short of what is needed. The governments own targets are about 30,000 homes a year and they can barely meet that, but the housing commission tells us that what we really need for our population is 50,000 homes a year."
She says the government's failure is causing record homelessness and the private sector isn't doing enough:
"Again and again this government has turned to the private market, and again and again developers, speculators and land hoarders have shown that they can't and won't deliver the homes that our communities need."
