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2025 – the 10 most read articles on our website

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.…

Too poor for council or housing association homes

A report from the housing campaign, Crisis, in collaboration with Herior-Watt University and the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence indicates that around a third of housing associations surveyed said pre-tenancy affordability checks determined that the applicant would not be given a tenancy due to “too low an income or insecure finances”. According to Crisis…

Social rent council homes fall below 1.5 million

Stats in Brief Council Housing Statistics 2024/25 December 2025 thelabourcampaignforcouncilhousing.org Every year councils with council housing stock send in statistical data to the Ministry of Housing. Some of them for 2024/25 have been published. The remaining ones, including Right to Buy sales will be published in the new year. You can check out the data…

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