The co-leaders of the Green Party say that there is a need to “take action” to combat the housing crisis in the UK. Adrian Ramsey says his party will call for local councils across the country and the government to sign up to a “Right Homes, Right Place, Right Price Charter” to improve access to quality housing and ensure green spaces are protected. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We've got a housing crisis in this country where more and more people are unable to afford their rents or their mortgages
00:06 and we also have a real lack of affordable housing as well.
00:09 So we need to take action to ensure that people's rents are affordable
00:13 and we also need to ensure that the new housing that's being built is actually affordable for people's needs.
00:18 And that's why we've put forward a Right Homes, Right Place, Right Price charter
00:23 that means people will be able to live in their own communities
00:26 and that developers should have to invest in the infrastructure, the local services that people need when new homes are built.
00:32 Rent controls are not a silver bullet but we do believe that they're part of the solution
00:37 to give local councils the power to control rents in areas where they're overheated
00:42 such as where I live and I'm standing to be an MP in Bristol.
00:46 But alongside that it's also about creating many more social homes
00:51 that includes building but also buying from the market and renovating.
00:56 There's lots of work that Green councillors where we're in administration or opposition
01:00 are already doing on councils to use the powers that councils already have on that
01:05 but we want to give more powers from national government
01:08 so that we can really speed up the process of tackling the housing crisis.