“Housing Manifesto” the labour party

The Labour party of great Britain (the main opposition party), in anticipation of the upcoming early elections published his “housing Manifesto” in which she undertakes to significantly increase the number of social housing, to impose minimum standards in the private rental sector and to reform the scheme “Help to buy”.The manifest contains the following items:• Spend 75 billion pounds on the construction of 150,000 homes in the municipalities or housing associations per year, and 50,000 of them will be available from local revenue.• To create a so-called “English Fund Sovereign of the Earth” empowered to buy land cheaper for affordable housing.•To introduce “Tax on second homes” that are used as holiday homes, to help deal with homelessness.• To introduce rent control, limiting it to inflation. The city will have the authority to limit the growth of the lease.• To make the concept of “tenancy expiring,” in order to prevent early eviction “no-fault”.• Enter the standards in the private rental sector, which would be provided by licensing.• tougher penalties for landlords who violate the rules.• To create a Fund that combines the tenants to allow the tenants to organize and defend their rights.• Get rid of rules that require landlords to check the immigration status of people or allowing them to exclude people from housing benefits.• To give local authorities powers to regulate short-term contracts, for example through Airbnb.• To reform the scheme “Help to Buy”, focusing on young customers with low incomes.• To impose taxes for foreign companies, buying house.• To give local residents a preferential right to purchase new housing in their area.• To give local authorities the powers to tax immovable property left empty for more efficient use of housing stock.• To stop selling new projects on a “leasehold” and to allow such owners to buy their property under the terms of “Freehold borough” “at a price they can afford”.