2021 Manifesto FINAL DRAFT - Flipbook - Page 48
Housing
The housing crisis
continues
According to the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights,
everyone has the right to housing.
But across the West Midlands it is
clear we are failing our citizens in
this aim - rough sleeping has
reached epidemic proportions,
homelessness continues to
increase, and the price of an
average house is unaffordable on
an average wage.
The government’s approach to
solving the housing problem has
been to make more land available
to private developers to build more
homes that the average person in
the West Midlands simply can’t
afford.