That will mean the first tenants can start to buy their homes from next year.
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“For years politicians have talked about building “affordable homes” – but the phrase was deceptive”.
What he meant: No one apart from Blair, of course, but he had Gordon to contend with.
Corbyn supporters say that Cameron’s speech, which dedicated so much time to attacking the new Labour leader and the party, is evidence that even the prime minister can not ignore his opponents’ popularity.
APHC chief executive John Thompson commented “The Prime Minister’s latest measure is likely to provide a welcome boost to the UK’s construction industry”.
The reform will see ministers changing the definition of affordable housing to include starter homes as well as properties for rent.
He told the conference he had “no romantic attachment to the European Union and its institutions” and would “fight hard in this renegotiation – so that we can get a better deal and the best of both worlds”.
Mr Cameron won applause as he said: “We can not let that man inflict his security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology on the country we love”. “But in a few madrassas, we’ve got children being taught that they shouldn’t mix with people of other religions; being beaten; swallowing conspiracy theories about Jewish people”. For people struggling on low incomes, home ownership is a distant dream and renting is their only option.
Cameron told delegates today that, when a generation of people in their 20s and 30s are waking up each morning in their childhood bedrooms, this should be a wakeup call to the country.
With the party in good heart following the General Election victory, which means there is, for the first since 1997 a Conservative majority government, Mr Cameron is expected to set out his vision for the rest of the decade at the end of which he intends to stand down as PM.
Last year, 141,000 homes were built across the United Kingdom – just over half the number that experts say is needed to prevent house prices continuing to spiral. “You can build here, and those affordable homes can be available to buy”.
Mr Cameron’s speech will bring the curtain down on a four-day conference dominated by senior Tories including George Osborne, Boris Johnson and Theresa May jockeying for position in the looming race to succeed him as party leader. According to the report, “planned welfare cuts will lead to an increase of 200,000 working households living in poverty in 2020”.
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Prime Minister David Cameron will on Wednesday call for a building “crusade” in Britain, in a bid to address a housing shortage that has become a political hotcake.
