Labour’s plan to build lots more housing, especially social housing, set out in detail here. Pennycook also did a thread on BlueSky which provides a handy summary.
So, in summary (with links to relevant bits of the thread): £39bn for a 10-year plan, aiming for 300,000 homes of which 180,000 will be social housing. The £39bn includes skills training and low-interest loans for social housing providers.
They’re going to reform (not abolish, unfortunately) Right to Buy, so that homes are less discounted, tenants will have to wait longer before they can buy the homes, and those in new homes will have an even longer wait - 35 years before any of those 180,000 projected new homes can be bought under right to buy.
that’s reassuring, and I guess is more a reflection of my own lack of faith in current governments worldwide in general
Yes, it’s fair - and indeed, good and right - to be sceptical. But we have to temper the scepticism with realism, which is the tricky bit!