how and why DID the labour leadership prevent a debate on council housing? For the fourth year running housing has been kept off the agenda of the Labour Party conference. This was no accident. The Labour leadership has sought to prevent a debate. The main instrument for stopping resolutions which the leadership doesn't want debated … Continue reading “The lack of housing is such a fertile source of human misery”
Category: Labour conference 2025
Let the Labour conference debate council housing
The Labour Campaign for Council Housing's resolution (model-resolution-2025.pdf) to the Labour Party conference has been deemed to be not 'contemporary', i.e. it will not be on the conference agenda. The Conference Arrangements Committee has not explained the basis of their judgement. A Constituency Labour Party which has sent in the resolution has to explain why … Continue reading Let the Labour conference debate council housing
Model Housing resolution for 2025 Labour conference
Here is the text of our model Housing resolution for this year's Labour conference. "Conference notes that government's latest statistics published on July 31st, show a record number of 131,140 households in temporary accommodation. There are also 1.33 million households on waiting lists. Therefore, Conference regrets that the government's Social and Affordable Homes Programme proposes … Continue reading Model Housing resolution for 2025 Labour conference
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