Campaigns:Clarifying the current party lines on homelessness

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There's a Housing Crisis going on. In the midst of summer we reflect that soon for many the coldness will make intransigence or rough sleeping a more unenjoyable experience for many. We compare Labour and Conservative currently know policies and committments here:

It's nice and warm, lots of hot air, so how does the two sided red and blue political pudding taste? Conservatives offer no solutions on homelessness, Labour offer no logical leadership or action, Liberals meh?

An honest comparison: Your comparison. Please reference all sources.

Conservative Commitments and Policies
  • "Despite repeated promises of radical reform from Labour, our welfare system still makes it possible for people to choose a life on benefits. It still fails to encourage and help all those who can work, to work. And it still discriminates against families." [1] - and then Westminster Council Sacks anywhere from 10-50 working homeless persons from Oxford Street Advertising. Nice joined up thinking there.
  • "The Conservative Party Opportunity Agenda will lay out an ambitious programme of reform designed to shift power from the state to individuals and civic institutions, in order to open up the new world of freedom to everyone.

It will include Green Papers on schools, skills, housing, localisation, enterprise, pensions and disability." [2]

Conservatives want to eat homeless babies for breakfast lunch and dinner! -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Porter

Labour Commitments and Policies
  • The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few."[3]

3 Million New Homes by 2020. Delivery and Planning?

Labour Credits "Low mortgage rates" (heh-up there at number 2) . as one of Labour's 50 top achievements since 1997. he availability of high quality affordable housing is an issue that goes right to the heart of Labour values. A booming property market and growing demand has put pressure on the availability of affordable housing in communities right across the Britain. Because of the complexity of this subject, the Sustainable Communities policy commission agreed to form a sub-group to look in detail at affordable housing. Since Spring 2006, this group has taken and considered evidence from a wide range of sources.

Central to meeting future housing need is the building of new affordable housing to rent or buy. Because we need to build new homes not just to own but to rent, we must bring together the private sector, housing associations and local authorities to renew the promise of social housing for our communities. Local authorities should play a key role in strategies for delivering affordable housing.

Meanwhile, Labour has also highlighted the need to move towards zero-carbon development. Gordon Brown’s eco-towns proposal could help to define a new approach to building environmentally sustainable communities which are environmentally sustainable" [4]

And yet the government has wasted millions of late simply consulting on eco towns and ignoring decent and sensible development whilst allowing local authorities to gatekeep services and waste money on fallacious choice based lettings schemes. We now have more housing advice leading no-where than ever before.JohnMonday

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