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Five election manifestos: what do they say about homelessness?
Now that we’ve seen manifestos from all the main political parties, we review what each promises to do about homelessness and the issues that affect it.
You’ve probably picked up by now that a general election is about to happen. You may even have seen housing enjoy its few minutes of fame when the Conservatives announced their plans to extend right-to-buy to housing associations – and the mixed response that followed.
Of course the trigger for those headlines was publication of the election manifestos by the five political parties standing across Great Britain - Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens and UKIP.
I’ve read them all (so you don’t have to), and I’ve tracked down anything that might have an impact on homelessness. I’ve tried to get a sense of how each party says it will approach and prioritise homelessness. And I’ve reviewed how each party’s policy commitments relate to four of the broad areas that you helped us identify for our own manifesto, Let’s make the difference: A manifesto to end homelessness, which we presented to MPs in January.
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