Homes In London

EDM number 145 in 2015-16, proposed by Sadiq Khan on 17/06/2015.
Categorised under the topic of Social rented housing.

That this House believes London is facing a chronic shortage of genuinely affordable and social housing; expresses concern that the Government's proposals to force councils to sell off large numbers of their homes, allow the sale of housing association properties through right-to-buy before replacement homes are built, and lower the welfare cap to £23,000 in London will make this crisis worse; further believes that the result will be the social cleansing of London; and calls on the Government to rethink plans to force councils to sell off homes, intended in part to subsidise right-to-buy discounts, and instead to prioritise the building of the homes Londoners need, including for social rent and for first time buyers and further to commit that no housing association or council homes to be sold under right-to-buy until new like-for-like homes for social rent have been built in the same numbers and in the same local authority area.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.