Labour Manifesto 2017
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COUNCIL AND<br />
SOCIAL TENANTS<br />
Under the Conservatives,<br />
affordable housebuilding has<br />
fallen to a 24-year low. <strong>Labour</strong><br />
will build the genuinely affordable<br />
homes to rent and buy that the<br />
country needs.<br />
e will remove government<br />
restrictions that stop councils<br />
building homes and begin the<br />
biggest council building programme<br />
for at least 30 years. e will ditch<br />
the Conservatives’ ban on long-term<br />
council tenancies to give council<br />
tenants security in their homes.<br />
e want more people to have a<br />
secure tenancy in a home built<br />
to high standards.<br />
<strong>Labour</strong> will scrap the punitive<br />
bedroom ta, which has caused<br />
many people to be evicted from<br />
their home and their community.<br />
ore council homes have been<br />
sold off under the Conservatives and<br />
only one in five have been replaced,<br />
despite long housing waiting lists.<br />
<strong>Labour</strong> will suspend the right-to-buy<br />
policy to protect affordable homes<br />
for local people, with councils only<br />
able to resume sales if they can prove<br />
they have a plan to replace homes<br />
sold like-for-like.<br />
CHAPTER 06 SC HS LL 63
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