Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Sunday that his party will address homelessness in Britain by purchasing more than 8,000 vacant properties.
Appearing on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show, Corbyn said the homelessness situation in Britain was "disgraceful" and "wholly unnecessary." As part of a solution, he said Labor would "Immediately purchase 8,000 properties across the country to give emergency housing to those people who are currently homeless and at the same time require local authorities to build far more."