Submission to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Council and Social Housing inquiry on the barriers to building and acquiring social rent council homes
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Council and Social Housing has launched an inquiry into obstacle to building and acquiring social rent council housing. This is our submission. The deadline has been extended to July 24th. Submissions should be sent to appgcash@shelter.org.uk . Summary Council housing is not a priority for the government. There is…
“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 They say that £29 billion in “historic housing debt”1 is based on an outdated financial settlement from 2012; that it “sucks away money that could be invested in building new social homes”.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…
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Labour Campaign for Council Housing 