Each year those local authorities with council housing send in a host of statistics relating to their stock to the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Amongst other things they tell us how many homes have been built or bought, how many homes have been sold under right to buy or demolished. I have … Continue reading No large scale council house building programme without central government grant and an end to RTB
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Back to the future in local authority housing?
Grant funding, the Housing Revenue Account and Local Housing Companies Martin Wicks (Labour Campaign for Council Housing) and Paul Watt (Birkbeck,University of London & LCCH) are presenting a paper at the 2021 Housing StudiesAssociation Conference - Preparing for the future and learning from the past - onThursday 15th April. Conference information is available here:https://www.housing-studies-association.org/pages/140-hsa-2021-conference The … Continue reading Back to the future in local authority housing?
Can you move this resolution at your CLP?
Has your Constituency Labour Party moved our model resolution? Labour's housing policy, unanimously agreed at its 2019 conference, and incorporated in its General Election manifesto committed Labour to 155,000 social rent homes a yearOf which at least 100,000 would be council homes, funded by £10 billion grant a yearEnding Right to BuyA review of Housing … Continue reading Can you move this resolution at your CLP?
