Brown outlines "Building Britain's Future" pledges...


 

emptyhomes_1209996c.jpgGordon Brown has been laying out plans to increase affordable housing in the UK this afternoon in Parliament, much to the disgust of David Cameron, who has called it a "package without a price tag".

The price tag Labour has put on it is £2.1bn - earmarked to build an extra 11,000 affordable homes over the next two years.

This is a massive increase from £600m promised in the Budget. The policy certainly reads like a manifesto statement from a struggling government that told Radio 4 this morning that it would not complete a spending review before the next election.

Read Brown's full statement here or the BBC's Nick Robinson's analysis here

The Homes and Communties Agency is holding a briefing tomorrow to go through all the small print, so watch this space for an update....

 

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