• ISLINGTON Labour has been working tirelessly to build more genuinely affordable homes, including new council homes. Our council home-building programme this year is the largest for 30 years.

We’ve set up a council-run, not-for-profit private lettings agency to provide tenants and landlords with a better deal. We’ve introduced targeted landlord licensing schemes to improve standards for private renters, and we’ve secured fines of more than £50,000 against landlords who weren’t treating tenants fairly.

But the government is determined to make the housing crisis worse. We were able to stand with residents to defeat the Tory tenant tax, but other disastrous Tory housing plans remain in place.

Such as plans to force the council to sell off council homes, which will see Islington lose up to 300 a year, making it far harder to find secure and affordable homes for people who need them. The Tories want to ban lifetime tenancies for council tenants, something we strongly oppose.

CLLR DIARMAID WARD
Labour executive member for housing and development, Islington Council