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LABOUR will outline new definitions of affordable housing in its green paper today as well as announcing plans to build a million more social homes over 10 years for low and middle-income earners.
The party said that, in government, it would redefine the Tories’ definition of affordable housing, linking pricing to incomes social housing rent, “living rent” and low-cost home ownership.
The Tory government’s current definition of “affordable housing” is rent up to 80 per cent of that on the private market.
The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS
‘Rent freezes are not a way forward at the moment,’ Housing Secretary Angela Rayner says
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL