Call for action on homelessness
Published Date:
09 May 2008
By Staff Copy
ACTION is being demanded to tackle homelessness after figures revealed the number of local families living in temporary accommodation.
Government figures show there were 67 households without a home of their own throughout the borough of Scarborough.
Tania Exley-Moore, the Liberal Democrats prospective parliamentary candidate for Scarborough and Whitby at the next general election, said: “These are very worrying figures. They mean that 67 families are without a proper home.
“There has been a lamentable failure by the Government to address the housing crisis in England.
“Labour are strangling council housing. Gordon Brown has ensured only a handful of new council houses have been built during the past decade across the country.
“The rise in the number of people in temporary accommodation here in Scarborough and Whitby is a symptom of Labour’s failure.”
In March, Liberal Democrats backed calls in Parliament to give councils the power and resources to build new houses but the measure was defeated.
The full article contains 164 words and appears in Whitby Gazette Friday newspaper.
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Last Updated:
07 May 2008 2:14 PM
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Source:
Whitby Gazette Friday
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Location:
Whitby
