Publications/documents

Briefing on ‘Consumer Standards’ – What can we learn from inspections of councils by the Regulator?

E-Bulletin March 20th 2025

Ministry of Housing PCS members need your support

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E-Bulletin February 2025

Leaflet

Here is a general leaflet about the campaign which you can download to distribute in your area, to help recruit members and affiliates.

Briefing on Labour’s housing policy

An announcement on the government’s Affordable Homes Programme (replace the current Tory one) is expected at the time of the Spring Spending Review, which has been put back until June. In the period from now to then we want to lobby councillors and MPs to ask them to press the government to make changes to their policy sufficient to begin to resolve the housing crisis. You can download the Briefing below. It has links to more detailed analysis of the issues it deals with.

Model resolution

We have been asked for a model resolution to promote discussion on the government’s housing policy, in the run-up to the Spring Review (delayed until June). We are expecting an announcement on the funding for the government’s Affordable Homes Programme to replace the existing Tory one. See the model resolution below.

Council Housing Pledge

During the General Election we asked Labour candidates to sign our Council Housing Pledge. We are asking people to now lobby the new MPs to sign it. When you speak to them, please let us know what their response is.

Improving the Decent Homes Standard requires funding

The case for cancelling council housing ‘debt’.

This is a pamphlet which highlights the under-funding of local authority housing revenue accounts and puts the case for cancelling what is bogus debt which hangs like an albatross around the neck of local authorities.

Secretary’s report 2023 AGM

Delegates Briefing for the 2022 Labour Party Conference

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Model resolution for CLPs – Declaring a Housing Emergency

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Declaring a Housing Emergency

A campaign Newsletter explaining why we asking CLPs to carry a model resolution which calls on councils to Declare a Housing Emergency as a launchpad for campaigning to build pressure on the government to provide sufficient funding for existing council housing and grant for a large scale council house building programme.

How many council homes is your council building?

Check out how many homes your council is building or buying, compared to the number of homes it is losing through demolition and RTB sales. The data shows the breakdown of council homes by political parties in control of English local authorities.

Model resolution for CLPs

This is our submission to Labour’s Policy Commission consultation for 2020 on Housing, Local Government and Transport: Coronavirus and the future of local government.

This is a letter to Steve Reed, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the issue of debt cancellation

This is an Open Letter which called on the Labour leadership to include in the General Election Manifesto the three key policies passed at the September 2019 conference: 100,000 council homes a year, £10 billion a year grant to fund them, and ending Right to Buy. It includes an impressive list of signatories.