Changes to RTB are better than the status quo but it's time to abolish it. The government has introduced a Statutory Instrument in Parliament to cut the discount for tenants when they buy a home through Right to Buy. Discounts were increased by the Tories in 2012. Maximum discounts are currently £136,400 in London and … Continue reading Time to abolish Right to Buy
Category: Council Housing
‘I feel like I’m not human’: tenants speak out as housing campaign puts its case to councillors
Housing Action Teeside put the case for building Council Housing to Stockton Council. A committee heard how tenants felt let down, lied to, ignored and trapped for years in dilapidated homes sometimes 'unfit for human habitation' Tenants who have spent years waiting for housing or to solve damp and mould issues took up placards to … Continue reading ‘I feel like I’m not human’: tenants speak out as housing campaign puts its case to councillors
Time to end the charade of “affordable housing”
In a letter to the Chair of Homes England, Matthew Pennycook, Minister of State (Housing, Communities & Local Government) has outlined the government's “immediate priorities”. One of them is for Homes England to maximise the number of social rent homes “delivered through the allocation of remaining Affordable Homes Programme funding”. However, the letter gives no … Continue reading Time to end the charade of “affordable housing”
Broxtowe Council Labour Group affiliates to Labour Campaign for Council Housing
Broxtowe opposed transfer of their council housing stock and have more than 4,000 council homes. Broxtowe Council Labour Group has affiliated to the Labour Campaign for Council Housing. Cabinet member for Housing, Vanessa Smith explains why. “We believe firmly in the importance of council housing and support the work of LCfCH to secure safe, decent … Continue reading Broxtowe Council Labour Group affiliates to Labour Campaign for Council Housing
Social rent council homes the key to resolving the housing crisis
A survey of councils by Inside Housing to find the biggest 50 council builders shows some telling statistics. 305 councils across England, Wales and Scotland responded to our survey. Between them they completed 10,794 homes in 2023/24. This is a combined total of direct building in the Housing Revenue Account and private council owned companies. … Continue reading Social rent council homes the key to resolving the housing crisis
Council housing in Stockton’s future
"Housing Action Teesside is a tenants’ union and housing campaign representing hundreds of tenants across Teesside, in both social and private rented housing. Our organisation is united around the belief that the housing crisis was created by political choices over many decades which put private profit ahead of people’s needs, and the commitment to organise … Continue reading Council housing in Stockton’s future
Labour fringe meeting: Council housing key to resolving the housing crisis
If you are at the Labour conference in Liverpool, we have a fringe meeting at 1 o'clock on Monday September 23rd at the Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT. Small Room, 1st Floor. It will be chaired by Ben Clay, Chair of the Labour Campaign for Council Housing. Speakers are Bell Ribeiro-Addy, … Continue reading Labour fringe meeting: Council housing key to resolving the housing crisis
Right to Buy – filling Andy Burnham’s bath
Paul Truswell says that supporting Right to Buy "has become a dogmatic obsession that has overridden the needs of millions of our fellow citizens". The Right to Buy is long past its sell-by date. Andy Burnham recently crystallised the reason in one telling phrase. Building new council homes while keeping the Right to Buy was, … Continue reading Right to Buy – filling Andy Burnham’s bath
“Securing the Future of Council Housing”
“Unless something is done soon, most council landlords will struggle to maintain their existing homes adequately or meet huge new demands to improve them, let alone build new homes for social rent.” Twenty Councils have produced an interim report, 'Securing the Future of Council Housing' (STFCH). With Labour now in government it rings a timely … Continue reading “Securing the Future of Council Housing”
Campaigning for Council Housing under a Labour government
The acute housing crisis resulting from the disastrous Right to Buy policy and the domination of house building by commodity production, will not be resolved by changing planning law. The big builders/developers build at a pace and a scale which serves one purpose, maximising their profits. There is a widespread recognition that a change of … Continue reading Campaigning for Council Housing under a Labour government
Labour Campaign for Council Housing 