'Bringing housing crisis to an end will not be easy - it will take time'

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner writes for The Mirror arsenic the authorities announces caller currency to physique much affordable and societal homes and tackle England's lodging emergency

Everyone deserves a decent, safe, unafraid and affordable home, but galore Mirror readers volition know, archetypal hand, that this has go progressively retired of scope for moving people.

The results of the lodging exigency we inherited are wide to see: a procreation locked retired of location ownership, 1.3 cardinal radical connected societal lodging waiting lists, soaring rents and grounds levels of homelessness, including, shamefully, astir 160,000 children surviving successful impermanent accommodation.

The deficiency of bully quality, affordable lodging has besides condemned excessively galore families renting privately to the misery of cramped, unacceptable surviving conditions. This Government was elected to alteration this and we’re wasting nary clip successful getting connected with the job.

First and foremost, this means gathering galore much homes of each kinds, including assembly housing, arsenic portion of our Plan for Change to turn the system and rise surviving standards for millions of moving people. And our bold committedness to delivering 1.5 cardinal homes besides includes a committedness to the biggest summation to societal and affordable lodging for a generation.

We’ve taken decisive steps towards this with a £5 cardinal boost successful the Budget for housebuilding, including an other £500 cardinal for up to 5,000 caller homes done our Affordable Homes Programme.

I’m delighted to denote contiguous that we’re topping this up with a further £300 cardinal which volition spell towards gathering up to 2,800 caller affordable homes wherever they are astir needed. This is conscionable 1 of a bid of ambitious measures announced this week that, alongside reforms to the readying system, volition region the barriers holding america backmost and get shovels successful the ground.

We volition physique much affordable homes and assembly housing, but we are besides acting to marque definite we’re not losing previous, existing banal faster than we tin regenerate it done reforms to Right to Buy.

Bringing England’s lodging situation to an extremity volition not beryllium easy. We haven’t built capable homes for decades to conscionable request and it volition instrumentality clip to crook this around. But wherever the past Government failed to enactment and caved successful to vested interests, we’re putting societal and affordable lodging astatine the bosom of our Plan for Change to get Britain building, enactment wealth successful people’s pockets and dispersed opportunity.

This is due to the fact that we cognize that a safe, secure, affordable location is not a luxury oregon a bully to have.It is the instauration connected which bully lives are built. With the caller backing and important measures announced this week, we volition marque this disposable to millions much moving people.