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Labour are choosing to let London’s housing crisis get worse

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29.10.2025

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 7: Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (C) reacts as he visits Brent Cross town visitor pavilion for a housing launch with Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, (L) Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (R) and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (2nd L) on June 7, 2024 in London, England. Labour promises a permanent mortgage guarantee scheme to get 80,000 young people on the housing ladder over the next five years. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

The Chancellor and the Mayor can choose to scrap affordable housing targets, abolish stamp duty, fast-track homes on state-owned land and reform the mortgage market. Or it can choose to let the housing crisis get worse, says Lord Bailey

Housing and getting more homes built has been my passion from the moment I entered politics. Having been homeless myself, and having been a youth worker for over 30 years beforehand, I know first-hand the difference a safe and secure home makes to someone’s prospects in life. Everything leads back to having a home of your own.

In London, we have a housing crisis, and we have had one for many years. What we also now have is a housebuilding crisis – an inherent and chronic issue within our capital city and its planning system which means we simply cannot build homes anymore, let alone the number of homes we actually need.

Shockingly, just........

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