We are on target to improve two million homes
By Jim Fitzpatrick
The local Conservative Party recently attacked me over Labour's housing record.
I thought they had a cheek: this from the party that sold off the best council properties and refused to allow them to be replaced, by forcing councils to use the monies raised elsewhere. Breathtaking!
For accuracy, I am just checking the actual figures at the moment, for homes built by social landlords in Tower Hamlets in recent years, and shall be happy to quote them in due course.
Right now, I will simply point out that more homes have been built in Tower Hamlets than in any other borough; that Ken Livingstone's aim, when Mayor of London, for 50 per cent social housing was opposed by the Tories; and that we are on target to improve two million homes to the decency threshold.
The Government inherited those two million homes from the Tories, across the country.
The dwellings had fallen below the acceptable standard. Most of them now have new kitchens, bathrooms, doors and windows.
The Tories think, or hope, a collective amnesia has swept the country and the borough of Tower Hamlets, rendering people unable to recall their record on housing, and on every other area of policy and practice.
- Jim Fitzpatrick is MP for Poplar and Canning Town
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