Housing

Conservative

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Build more houses so people throughout Wales have the chance to own or rent an affordable home of their own
  • Extend the Right to Buy to all tenants of Registered Social Landlords
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Housing

SNP

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Continue housing policy in Scotland, which has the highest house building rate in the UK
  • Continue Rural Housing Fund
  • Change the system for housing asylum seekers, addressing the “disgraceful condition” of housing provided
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Housing

Lib Dems

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Ensure more houses to meet local needs as well as good local services and community facilities such as schools, public transport, local shops, cultural venues and pubs
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Housing

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Provide resources to the Scottish government to invest in Scotland's housing stock
  • Guarantee funding for the Help to Buy scheme until 2027
  • Consult on introducing a private rent sector charter to drive up standards
  • Launch a national plan to end rough sleeping within the next parliament, and safeguard hostels and other supported housing
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Housing

Conservative

Main pledges

  • Build "fixed-term council houses", sold privately after 10-15 years with automatic Right to Buy for tenants
  • Build one million homes by end of 2020 and 500,000 more by end of 2022
  • Build 160,000 houses on government-owned land
  • Implement the Homelessness Reduction Act to halve rough sleeping
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Housing

Conservative

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • A housebuilding target for Scotland to build 100,000 homes over the next five years
  • Brownfield development should always be prioritised over greenfield development
  • Local authorities should develop serviced plots to encourage self-build and make them available under plot passports
  • A concerted effort to bring the estimated 34,000 empty homes back into use
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Housing

Lib Dems

Main pledges

  • Set target to build 300,000 new homes a year
  • Create 10 new garden cities in England
  • Stop right to buy for housing association tenants
  • Allow councils to charge 200% council tax on foreign-owned empty homes
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Housing

Plaid Cymru

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Roll out scheme to make housing stock more energy efficient
  • Ensure veterans receive adequate housing
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Housing

Labour

Main pledges

  • Introduce controls on rent rises
  • Suspend the right to buy policy
  • Build at least 100,000 council and housing association homes a year
  • Make available 4,000 additional homes for rough sleepers
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Housing

Green

Main pledges

  • Introduce rent controls and ban letting fees
  • Build 100,000 social rented homes a year by 2022
  • End Right to Buy discounts
  • Aim for house price stability
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Housing

Lib Dems

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • New direct spending on house-building to help build 300,000 homes a year across the UK by 2022
  • £5bn of initial capital for a new British Housing and Infrastructure Development Bank, using public money to attract private investment
  • Help young people in need by reversing cuts to housing benefit for 18-21-year-olds
  • Scrap the 'bedroom tax' across the UK, while seeking to achieve the aim of making best use of the housing supply through incentivising local authorities to help tenants 'downsize
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Housing

Labour

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Deliver 20,000 more affordable homes by 2021
  • Reverse the decision to abolish housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds
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Housing

UKIP

This issue is devolved/partly devolved to the Welsh assembly, which is next up for election in 2021

Key campaign points

  • Incentivise local development, bringing brownfield sites and derelict homes back in to use and released for affordable housing
  • Give local people more say on major planning decisions in their communities through legally binding referenda
  • Encourage new and innovative ways of building affordable homes, such as modular housing units and houses built using sustainable materials
  • Scrap punitive fees charged by letting and management agents
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Housing

UKIP

Main pledges

  • Provide 100,000 homes for younger people
  • Introduce locally-made, factory-built modular homes
  • Acquire brownfield sites through compulsory purchase to build affordable housing
  • Launch a review into operation of Housing Associations
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