Originally Posted by
Nick
Let's examine the actual figure for a moment shall we.
The previous Conservative administration between 1979-1996 delivered in total 913,690 affordable housing dwellings by Local Authorities and Housing Associations. This averaged 50,761 new dwellings each and every year.
The previous Labour Government between 1997-2010 - These figures only actually cover the period to 2008 - delivered 290,750 new affordable dwellings - under a third of the number of dwellings provided under the previous Conservative Government. This is an average of 24,299 new dwellings each year - Less than half of the number of new dwellings provided by the previous Conservative Government each year on average.
It is also interesting to note that there were 45,500 completions of affordable housing dwellings in England in 2017, whist a further 46,000 affordable housing dwellings were commenced on site during the same year - A figure close to the average of affordable housing dwellings by the previous Conservative Government and again provision at nearly double the average level provided by the previous Labour Government, on an annual basis.
A final note on the availability of affordable housing in the country is that during the period 1997-2010 - The period of the last Labour Administration, it is interesting to note that in 1997 there were 4.4 million affordable housing units in the country by 2010 there were less than 4.0m affordable housing units available - a decrease of over 420,000 dwellings.
The rhetoric is great, the truth is a long way from what the rabid left spout.
Right on, brothers and sisters.