May promises to fix the housing crisis in R.Unido in the next budget

The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, today pledged "personally" to fix the crisis due to the lack of affordable housing in the UK on the eve of next week's present the State budget for the 2018-2019 financial year.

London, Nov 16 (EFE) .- The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, pledged today "personally" to fix the crisis due to the lack of affordable housing in the United Kingdom on the eve of next week the State budget for the 2018-2019 financial year will be presented.

May acknowledged that, although there have been advances, "there is still a lot to be done", and granted that, if they build "faster" more houses that people can afford, there is a risk of promoting "an uprooted generation", also due to the high price of rents.

It is expected that the Minister of Economy, Philip Hammond, include proposals on the housing issue in the general budget of the State that he will present to the Parliament on November 22, although he has already warned that it is "a complex problem" for which "there is not a single solution".

May's words coincided with the dissemination of data indicating that in 2016-2017 They built 217,350 new homes in England, 27,700 more than in the previous period and the highest number since the 2008 financial crisis.

The homeless help organization Shelter, who estimates that at least 250,000 homes should be built each year to face the national crisis, called the figure "too low" and criticized that "only one fifth of those Homes have an affordable price. "

On the next budget, the spokesman for Labor Economy, John McDonnell, urged the government today to" break with the failed measures of austerity "of recent years and to devote to investing in housing and in general in public services.

McDonnell said his party would allocate some 17,000 million pounds (19,000 million euros) additional to the year to services such as education and health that would be obtained with an increase in corporate tax, among other measures.