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Shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds claimed yesterday that Labour would create nearly a quarter of million construction jobs through its house-building plan.
She predicted that her party's pledge to build 200,000 homes a year by 2020 if it wins in 2015 could provide employment for 230,000 people.
"The next Labour government will make house-building a priority and play its full part in delivering the scale of change that we need," she told the National House Building Council.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance
