Steve Murphy General Secretary of construction union UCATT, has strongly welcomed Labour's commitment to be building 200,000 homes a year by 2020.

Mr Murphy, said: "Our current housing crisis is a result of a failure to build a sufficient number of homes especially council housing for decades. This is the first time that a political party is seriously addressing this crisis which is affecting Britain socially and economically.”

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"Labour is committed to getting Britain building housing. This will give genuine hope to people whose lives are blighted by homelessness or inadequate overcrowded housing. A house building programme on this scale would also give a massive boost to the construction industry providing a huge number of new jobs."

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