In the 2009 Budget, the Chancellor announced a £100m fund for new council house building. However, this will only provide 900 new homes - not many when there are over 1.6m families on the council house waiting list. [continue...]
In December the Government will unveil its Housing Green Paper amid fears that council housing tenants rights will be attacked - following speeches by previous Housing Minister Caroline Flint. Today, the Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals to means test and time limit council ‘secure’ tenancies. [continue...]

The campaign to demand the Government funds improvements to all existing council housing, and to start building first class council homes to address housing need. For more information see Defend Council Housing website. [continue...]
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