Revamped Help to Buy – underwriting high house prices
“The IMF, Office of Budget Responsibility and the Treasury Select Committee have all warned that the government’s Help to Buy scheme will push up house prices but have limited impact on increasing badly needed affordable house building.” Jack Dromey, Shadow Housing Minister, July 5th 2013 The government is introducing a new version of Help to…
Social rent council housing should be the Government’s first housing priority
This is an article for the Red Brick Blog. Editor Rose Grayston has said that our campaign “is right that we don’t yet have the policy to meet Labour’s promise on the biggest council house building programme since 1980.” The first tranche of funding for the Government’s Social & Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) has been…
Labour conference votes for 90,000 social rent council homes a year, ending Right to Buy and cancelling council housing debt
At this year’s Labour conference the Labour Campaign for Council Housing’s resolution, sent in by at least 10 CLPs, was kept off the agenda by a decision of the Conference Arrangements Committee1. It was judged not to be a ‘contemporary motion’ because, we were told, the National Policy Forum report had ‘substantially’ covered the issues…
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