Tackling the housing crisis is one of the most important things Lib Dems can do. As the Leader of Chelmsford City Council I agonise about housing every day. We have over 450 homeless families in my city this week, and no houses to put them in.
So I welcome the huge number of positive things in the conference housing motion F31 and policy paper that will allow us to do that.
But one of the other really important things I want to do as a Lib Dem council leader is to help get many more Lib Dem MPs elected. And removing the national housing target (which we voted FOR just two years ago) will make that job harder.
We’ve already seen public criticism for the removal of targets. It doesn’t matter how much the leaders try to explain that “actually, removing the target will mean we are able to build more houses”. We should have learned long ago that when you’re explaining you’re losing.
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