Above inflation rent increases can’t compensate for under-funding of council housing
Driving up rent will impoverish tenants, it won’t resolve the council housing funding crisis. In explaining our opposition to 10 years of above inflation rent increases and ‘rent convergence’ (No to 10 years of above inflation rent increases – Labour Campaign for Council Housing ) we said that “These policies are a substitute – to…
Council housing is the key to resolving the housing crisis
Media release January 20th 2026 In an interview on ITV a Minister has finally explained why the government opposes funding a large scale council house building programme. Daniel Hewitt asked Steve Reed why the government didn’t do what the Attlee government did; its mass council house building programme. According to Reed it’s because people have…
Local government financial settlement : this is not the break from austerity we need
LGA Labour Leader Bev Craig has said that the government’s three year local government funding settlement indicates that “austerity is over”. Yet even she admits that the funding gap for local authorities has only been reduced from £6 billion to £4 billion. Look at the financial projections and you see that councils’ ‘core spending power’…
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