Hiesolution number 15 in the resolutions submitted to this years Labour Party conference from Sheffield, Hillsborough C.L.P. reads:
"This conference rejects the Conservative Government's housing policy and programme which totally fails to face up to the realities of the housing problem in Britain. Private enterprise, building houses for profit, will never provide homes adequate to meet the social noads of the people of
"Conference declares that a Labour Government must provide homes for the people as a social service, complementary with education and health services, This can only be done by ontirely eliminating the profit motive in house building, <A national Ministry of Housing must be established, responsible for a crash programme to build at least 425,000 houses per year, financed by the national Exchequer in the same way as a battleship or muclear missile, and not through interest—boaring loans, Tho cost of house building must be controlled and reduced through central and bulk pur— chase of materials, Land for housing development must be made available at a price based on its present use and steps taken to prevent further inflation in land values for housing development, Tho present Rent Acts must be repenied and new controls enforced,
“Rent of publicly-owned houses should be based on a percentage of the tenant's income and not on the cost of the house, : The house should be allocated on social need and the rent related to the tenant's financial resources, Rent allowances could be made by tho Inland Revenme through income tax procedure without creating a now administrative machine,"