Housing
What the manifesto says: Biggest council housebuilding programme for 30 years, with pledge to build “at least 100,000 council and housing association homes a year for genuinely affordable rent or sale”. Building new private sector homes will become a national infrastructure priority, with help to buy funding guaranteed until 2027. A pledge to end rough sleeping within five years includes 4,000 homes reserved for the homeless.
Analysis: Corbyn has pledged 1m new homes over five years. The manifesto does not quite put that figure on it but the scale of ambition is clear. At the 2015 general election, the Conservatives pledged to build a million new homes by 2020, but Labour claims housebuilding has fallen since 2010 to its lowest level since the 1920s. Previous Corbyn papers put a figure of £15bn a year on the cost of Labour’s housebuilding pledge.
