Conservatives has said that military houses should run by the Housing Association to deal with the “poor” state of housing and stem a migration of soldiers.
Military families require extensive renovation in two-thirds of homes, with too much service residence, mold and rat infections, A report received last year,
Government is consulting plans to reproduce military houses With £ 7bn funding By 2025, after bringing defense property Ministry of Defense (MOD) back under control Last year.
Orthodox Shadow Defense Secretary James Cartaliz argued that an armed forces would build “houses for homes” promised by the Housing Association governments.
Speaking at a press conference, Cartaliz said that he was “really embarrassed” of “bad standards of housing stock”, he had discovered as Defense Procurement Minister in the last Tory government.
He said Britain needs to rapidly re -form its defense abilities in response to the years we have faced the most serious military threats, which we have faced for years.
“In my view, the ability that still matters the most for our armed forces is its people. And they are still leaving service in their country, who are joining new recruitments.”
Show official figures 1,140 more people abandoned the armed forces compared to last year.
About one -third of the UK military was considering leaving the armed forces due to the standard of housing, Ministry of Defense (MOD) got its own survey.
Housing association-profit organizations are not an management, management and construction of rent-often rent at discount rates.
Traditionally they re -establish any surplus income in maintaining and improving housing stocks, rather than distributing profits to shareholders.
Cartaliz stated that the new Armed Force Housing Association would be a “mutual organization”, in which the board said with the board representation to “their voices heard” with board representatives, Cartaliz said.
Cartaliz said that the body will be funded using currently allocated funds for defense housing and the taxpayer can save £ 80m per year, currently being spent on the cost of rent for soldiers.
Last year, the government reversed a privatization deal in 1996 and bought back the defense property from antington Holmes in £ 6BN.
A labor spokesperson said that “far from improving things, these half-cakes plans risk a disaster for personnel again and for military capacity to privatize private homes of family homes”.
The spokesperson said, “On the contrary, our labor government is already investing far more than toesy, which is investing more than toes, to fix long -term decline and distribute fit homes for heroes.”