Our model housing resolution for Labour’s conference is below. Owing to a change in the rules it has to be a ‘contemporary’ resolution. The NEC says that it must relate to events after the General Election. You can download a PDF below.
Housing
Conference notes Angela Rayner’s statement that delivery of “affordable” and social homes is her number one priority. Conference also notes concerns expressed across the housing sector about the limitations of the housing reform proposed in the King’s Speech. The National Housing Federation commented that building 1.5 million homes over the next Parliament will not be possible through planning reform alone but must be part of “a nationally coordinated and fully funded long-term plan for housing which places social housing at its core.”
Conference notes the report “Securing the Future of Council Housing,” published July 10th by twenty of England’s largest council landlords, calling for emergency funding. It warns that, “unless something is done soon, most council landlords will struggle to maintain their existing homes adequately, let alone build new homes for social rent.”
Therefore, to improve the quality of existing homes and ensure delivery of new social homes at the scale needed, conference calls upon the government to:
- Grant Fund building/acquisition of 150,000 social rent homes a year, including 100,000 council homes;
- Invest in Direct Labour Organisations with well paid, unionised jobs and apprenticeships to deliver this;
- End Right to Buy to stop the loss of homes;
- Fund councils for the full cost of temporary accommodation;
- Review council housing ‘debt’ to fund housing revenue accounts sufficiently to improve the standard of council housing;
- Provide the emergency funding called for by the councils;
- End so-called ‘affordable rent’ and above inflation rent increases.
Labour Campaign for Council Housing 
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