Can Labour REALLY solve Britain’s housing crisis? | ITV News

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Can Labour REALLY solve Britain’s housing crisis? | ITV News

Do you want to buy your own home? Are you a renter paying record-high housing costs?

Are you a council tenant living in squalid conditions? Or are you one of the 350,000 homeless without a place to live, trapped in temporary accommodation?

Having unearthed British housing at its very worst, Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt grills Housing Secretary Steve Reed on what Labour are doing to solve the national crisis.

It was the government’s number one priority on the first day of taking office, but 18 months on, house building remains slow, homelessness is still rising, and if the polls are to be believed, voters are not impressed.

So what’s the plan to turn it around?

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Date: January 13, 2026