Housing Reform

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 4:29 pm on 21 November 2011.

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Photo of Joan Ruddock Joan Ruddock Labour, Lewisham, Deptford 4:29, 21 November 2011

Will the Minister accept that, in an area such as Lewisham, where there are below-average incomes, a lot of unemployment and very high house prices, finding a deposit of £10,000 is absolutely impossible? What time frame would he put on housing the 17,000-plus families in my borough of Lewisham into affordable and decent homes?