MULHOLLAND CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS SOCIAL HOUSING CRISIS
February 20, 2007 12:00 AM
Responding for the Liberal Democrats in an adjournment debate in Parliament today on Social Housing and Cohesion in Yorkshire, the subject of a Government report today, Leeds MP Greg Mulholland said: "I have contacted by a number of constituents in Leeds with shocking cases of being forced to sleep in friend's spare rooms and floors, even in tents in the garden. This is simply unacceptable, and it is the result of abject failure of the Government's policy in this area.
"There is a fundamental lack of social housing, particularly as housing prices push buying a home out of the reach of many, which promises to only get worse as demand continues to increase. "Further, under right to buy homes being sold off are simply not being replaced, resulting in a critical shortfall in the number of homes available.
"Labour's failure to provide enough social housing has left a legacy of long waiting lists, hidden homelessness, and poorest and most deprived being left behind." "What is needed is a bold new approach to social housing. It must no longer be seen as the option which is second best; it must be treated with equal importance as other forms of housing.
"Only then can the crisis in social housing be addressed, and the people in desperate need finally get the assistance they deserve."
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