Here are the top 10 most read LCfCH website articles for 2025. If you haven’t read any of them have a look.
1. Briefing: why we oppose ‘rent convergence’ August 2025
The government is reintroducing New Labour’s ‘rent convergence’ which could mean an extra £2 a week on top of 10 years of CPI+1%.
2. Social & Affordable Homes Programme – a flawed programme which will not resolve the housing crisis November 2025
Analysis of the government’s Social and Affordable Homes Programme which begins in 2026.
3. Above inflation rent increase will not resolve the council housing financial crisis February 2025
“Rather than proposing to increase the financial pressure on tenants with above inflation rent increases, councils should be seeking the support of tenants in a campaign for the government to fund HRAs sufficiently to maintain and improve existing homes.”
4. The government should abandon its ill-health and disability benefit cuts
“It is shameful for a Labour government to place a higher value on fiscal rules, and commitment not to raise taxes, than on the needs of disabled people. Campaigners must keep fighting.”
5. Austerity by another name: “Exceptional Financial Support” March 2025
ESF offers no financial support. It allows councils to take on more debt and pay for it with cuts and/or sales of assets
6. No to 10 years of above inflation rent increases October 2025
A Statement opposing the government’s policy of 10 years of above inflation rent increases and ‘rent convergence”
7. Tough on developers, big on building council housing April 2025
Labour MP Chris Hinchliff contests the government’s strategy on planning. He says that its “Time for a left alternative on planning: tough on developers, big on building council housing.”
8. The government should end its support for the Tory policy of “affordable rent” October 2025
“Affordable rent” was introduced by the coalition government as part of its austerity programme. The government is keeping it in place despite it being £60 a week more in England, £90 in London.
9. Step up the pressure for 90,000+ social rent homes a year June 2025
First news of the government’s Social and Affordable Homes Programme. “The new investment pales in comparison with the scale of housing need…”
10. “The speculatve builder is an unplannable instrument” – lessons from the Attlee government Part 1 August 2025
“Despite the labour and materials shortages, municipal housebuilding had responded to the critical need of the British working class with an urgency and vigour which few save the most optimistic could have hoped for.” 80 years after the election of the Attlee government, lessons to be learned for addressing today’s housing crisis.
Labour Campaign for Council Housing 