Election year:
2023
Political party:
Green Party
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Housing
- Establish representative housing committees in all local communities that reflect both home-owners and renters, ensuring diversity of representation for minority or underserved groups.
- Housing is a social good and a basic right; all people should have access to secure, affordable and good quality housing.
- Develop a sustainable building strategy, which provides guidance and sets standards for building materials and performance based on life cycle analysis.
- Introduce measures to fairly tax housing and land wealth, such as a capital gains tax on all but the family home, to restrain house prices by limiting speculative investment in property.
- Ensure that tax, monetary and fiscal policy, and controls on banks incentivise productive investment, rather than speculation in property.
- Establish representative housing committees in all local communities that reflect both home-owners and renters, ensuring diversity of representation for minority or underserved groups.
- Introduce the clean power payment, which will help people cover the cost of upgrading their home to be well-insulated and heated by clean, green energy.
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