The government has announced a house-building plan to add 1.5 million new homes to the national housing stock.
As usual, local authorities are expected to take on the burden of ensuring Labour’s affordable housing component is kept high on the agenda in their local areas.
It leaves the issue of who gets what so far unaccounted for.
It’s not clear what will end up in whose hands. After years of delays, b&b’s filling up, and hotels given over to the Home Office for their asylum work this core part of the strategy is still left unanswered.
It’s a bewildering issue, but there’s no guarantee any single family in need of a home will get one by a Labour government anytime soon. It isn’t exactly made clear who will be relieved of their homelessness or sub-standard accommodation by this plan as yet.
If it were simply a “build, and move in” policy it would have been achieved by now.
However, as politicians dither the waiting list only grows longer.
