September/October Party Conference Announcements

Building on the Labour party’s Green paper ‘Housing for the Many’ (April 2018) announcements at the Labour Conference included a pledge to “end the housing crisis” with a raft of measures including handing more power to private tenants and offering homeless people the chance of a first home.
Shadow housing secretary John Healeyunveiled the plans at the party’s annual conference on Monday in his speech on Labour’s housing policy.
“The next Labour Government will be the most radical Government on housing for over half a century, and we will do whatever it takes to end this Tory housing crisis,” he said.
Labour also pledged to build one million “truly affordable” council and housing association homes.