1.3 Million Families, that is 1 in 4 families in England, are on lower incomes and have to spend a third of their net income on housing. This is largely due to the shortage of private rental sector housing which was exacerbated in the 1980’s by the Conservative party not building social housing programmes and the Labour party of the 90’s not really tackling this issue.
I’m glad it’s a national competence and it should stay a
national competence. However, the EU has a detrimental impact. We currently
have a Government in the United Kingdom that does not know how many people will
be coming from Romania and Bulgaria or indeed from across the European Union.
How are our local authorities supposed to make provision,
when provision already doesn’t meet demand? Hence the problem with the people in
the private housing sector not being able to afford to spend a third of their
income on housing, for example £500 in Coventry. That is not affordable.
