Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn promised in a new interview that his party would buy 8,000 homes for homeless people in the United Kingdom (U.K.) if his party wins power.

Corbyn said he would buy the 8,000 homes "immediately."

"[We would] immediately purchase 8,000 properties across the country to give emergency housing to those people who are currently homeless," he said during a BBC interview.

"And at the same time, require local authorities to build far more."

He said homeless people "beg to get money for a night shelter, stay in the night shelter or a hostel," according to The Telegraph.

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"The problem then is move on accommodation, the problem then is not having an address, without which [they] can't get a job or claim benefits," he said.

He also said that properties that were left vacant "deliberately" would be given to councils to be used to house people in need.

"We would give local authorities the power to take over deliberately kept empty properties, because there is something grossly insulting about the idea you would build some luxury block and deliberately keep it empty," he said.

He called the problem of homelessness in the U.K. "disgusting" and "wholly unnecessary."

According to The Telegraph, there are currently around 5,000 homeless people living in the U.K.