Last week Parliament debated one of the most important issues facing Londoners - the need to provide more affordable homes.

The shortage of affordable housing in Putney means that many couples, families and first-time buyers are priced out of living locally.

There are almost 9,000 Wandsworth residents on the council's waiting list, many of whom have no realistic prospect of being offered a home in the foreseeable future.

And the amount of affordable homes to rent in the borough has been halved by council policies: from over 32,000 to less than 17,000.

The Government's Housing and Regeneration Bill is a step in the right direction, promising three million new homes by 2020 and 240,000 zero carbon homes built every year.

That is why it is so disappointing that Putney's Conservative MP Justine Greening voted against these plans to build more affordable homes.

But this should come as no surprise as there is no reference to housing problems on her website, and there is no record of Ms Greening ever raising local housing problems in Parliament. She has, however, found time for 10 parliamentary questions on tobacco smuggling and two on the problems of the Island of Sark.

By voting against the Bill, Ms Greening has voted against helping local families to stay in the area as their families grow; she has voted against more affordable homes and she has voted against ensuring the new homes built are low and zero carbon and environmentally-friendly.

I encourage your readers who share my priority for local housing to visit my website at ,a href="http://www.stuartking.net/housingsurvey">stuartking.net/housingsurvey and share their housing views with me.

STUART KING

Labour parliamentary candidate for Putney