LABOUR has highlighted Lancashire County Council’s pioneering ‘Heylo’ housing scheme, in a special report.
Its analysis shows Labour authorities are out-building their Conservative equivalents by 50 per cent.
Lancashire is singled out for praise for its collaboration with its pension scheme and the Guinness Housing Association to provide to provide new affordable homes for shared ownership.
With county council elections on Thursday next week, the party has published ‘Local Housing Innovations: The Best of Labour in Power’.
It highlights Heylo, a private company established in 2014, as a success story.
Shadow housing secretary John Healey, who edited the report based on a House of Commons Library research, said: “The approach of Lancashire County Council shows that the Labour Party in power can make a real difference.
“After seven years of Tory failure on housing, from falling home-ownership to rising homelessness, Britain has a housing crisis.”
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