The Liberal Democrats need a better housing policy. The proposed policy on building many more houses that was (rightly) debated at Conference is not sufficient. The other policies in the Liberal Democrat manifesto had weaknesses.
The housing situation today is the cause of some of the biggest problems we have in delivering on fundamental Liberal Democrat principles of ‘the freedom, dignity and well-being of individuals’ and on the ‘just distribution of economic rewards’ – let alone getting ‘value for money’ for the state. Jeremy Corbyn has identified affordable housing as his first priority in his early statements and PMQ’s. However the housing situation is not just unsatisfactory for the far left and the poor: it is unsatisfactory for all (except maybe for the rich and the private landlords). We in the Liberal Democrats should be leading the search for agreed centre left policies to do something about it.
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