“Unsustainable (council housing) debt” – cut it or cancel it?
Shelter is calling for the government to “remove the historic debt local authorities owe to the government” for council housing. They say that £29 billion in “historic housing debt”1 is based on an outdated financial settlement from 2012; that it “sucks away money that could be invested in building new social homes”. Shelter calls for…
PCS union housing policy
This is an extract from a Public and Commercial Services Union pamphlet, “Social Security – there is an alternative”.Also of interest, the PCS is undertaking a suvey of its membership in relation to their housing situation and how the crisis impacts on them. Since 1997 the price of an average home in England has doubled…
Ban Developer Donations to Political Parties – Housing for People, Not Profit
Labour MP, Chris Hinchliff, and a number tenant and housing campaign groups, are writing to Steve Reed, asking him to support of a ban on developers donating to political parties. Hinchliff is proposing a new Clause (25) to the Representation of the People Bill, which introduce sauch a ban.. The letter says “We are writing…
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Labour Campaign for Council Housing 