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Former DPP will “tackle housing crisis” if selected as Labour candidate (9 September 2014)

Date: 09/09/2014
Duncan Lewis, Housing Solicitors, Former DPP will “tackle housing crisis” if selected as Labour candidate

The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer – who is hoping to win selection as Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras – has said if elected he would tackle London’s housing crisis.

Mr Starmer told the Evening Standard newspaper that the shortage of affordable housing in London was blighting the future of Londoners “at almost every level”.

“There is a very real housing crisis – if you’re a council tenant, a social tenant, or if you’re a private tenant, when your rent is likely to be increasing every year to very high rents that most people can’t afford,” he said in an interview.

“If you want to buy in Holborn and St Pancras, it’s almost impossible unless you have a very high income.

This is a growing issue across London, across the country – and it’s part of my concern about inequality.”

Mr Starmer is standing for selection in the constituency to be vacated by Frank Dobson MP. Labour won the seat at the last general election with a majority of nearly 10,000 votes.

The area of Holborn – traditionally the legal centre of the capital – has undergone a facelift in recent years and the neighbourhood between St Paul’s and Oxford Street has been redeveloped and rebranded as “Midtown”, pushing up rents.

There are large swathes of social housing in the locale, however – as well as a large student population.

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