According to today's Observer the Conservative Party is to take the lead in social housing policy. With record lows in house building neither the private sector nor the housing associations are making a dent in the ever increasing numbers of homeless families on waiting lists.
The Labour Party's policy of mass demolition to encourage millionaire developers onto brown field sites has been a disaster for much of the north. It has led to housing developments for speculation rather than real homes. The Conservatives now threaten Labour's heartland and may become the party of housing the hard working families that cannot find decent homes.
Labour has failed in every year to meet it's house building targets. Fewer social housing is being built now than in world war two. Conservative controlled Croydon Council is to build 100 homes for social housing in this financial year under the encouragement of London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Meanwhile no Labour controlled authority will build anything like this number. In Gateshead they are determined to continue is the demolition programme and "grassing over" demolished sites in the medium term - according to their most recent planning applications for homes around Saltwell Road.
The Conservative Party has come to the view that it can't wait for the private sector to build in a housing crisis. It seems that Gateshead Council is a true believer in the powers of the private sector developers.
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