Corbyn Vanity Projects
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00:00The people that come and talk to me the most are in deep housing stress,
00:06particularly rough sleeping homeless, which is going up,
00:10but also really bad levels of overcrowding in council and housing association property,
00:17which leads to underachievement by their children in schools
00:20because there's simply no space to do homework and study.
00:23So we've got to make a priority on social housing.
00:28We need a city that works for everybody.
00:32The housing crisis is at its most acute.
00:35I think the GLA understand that.
00:38I think they need the resources to develop the council housing
00:41and the planning powers to develop the council housing.
00:44I am concerned that some of the planning decisions are being made.
00:49We're becoming a city that, particularly in central London and the City of London,
00:55is losing its character completely by the new competition of vanity projects,
01:01of an even higher high-rise office block than the next one.
01:05That's not what London's about.
01:07London is about its open spaces, its character, its history.
01:12I want to retain that and at the same time improve social housing.
01:16Social housing can be in converted street properties as well.
01:19It doesn't all have to be to high-rise blocks.