When Keir Starmer asked about the Tories abandoning targets for house building last week, the PM sought to make light of it and claimed it was about respect for local democracy. It means he’s ditching the long-held ambition to build 300,000 new homes per year and finally get to grips with our housing crisis. HisContinue reading Heartless Over Homes
Steve McCabe MP (Birmingham, Selly Oak) has expressed outrage at figures released today which show an estimated 726 homeless people died in 2018, a 22% rise on the previous year. In the Commons he told the new Housing Minister, Luke Hall (Con. Thornbury and Yate) to end the ludicrous Housing Association ‘Right to Buy’ Lottery Project which has already cost over £10M and resulted in only 180 transactions across both East and West Midlands and divert the money to an emergency aid programme. Steve McCabe called on the minister to admit the scheme was a daft idea and a waste of public money and to commit the remaining £190M to an emergency budget to prevent the spectacle of more vulnerable people freezing to death on the streets this winter.
See Steve’s question to the Minister here
Continue reading MP Calls for Action to Halt Appalling Rise in Homeless Deaths
Steve McCabe, MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, has today written to the Mayor for the West Midlands Combined Authority calling for a fresh initiative to tackle homelessness as figures reveal an increase of nearly 60% in rough sleeping in Birmingham.
During Housing and Local Government Questions, Steve McCabe MP accused the Government of being in complete denial about the housing and homelessness crisis in Birmingham. Watch Steve’s question to the Housing Minister today about the Midlands Voluntary Right to Buy Pilot
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Continue reading Minister in complete denial about the housing and homelessness crisis in Birmingham
Shocking figures released today show rough sleeping in Birmingham has increased by over 500% since 2010. The Department for Communities and Local Government have released their annual figures for rough sleeping across the UK. The statistics show yet another shocking rise in homelessness and rough sleeping in Birmingham and across the UK.
Continue reading Government figures show rough sleeping in Birmingham up over 500% since 2010
