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Tag Archives: Council housing
It’s Tory v Tory as tenants scent victory
Tenants fighting the controversial sell-off of estates in Hammersmith and Fulham are celebrating the long-awaited publication of the draft regulations for the Right to Manage and Right to Transfer. The regulations, when finally approved, offer the real prospect that the tenants will … Continue reading
The Daily Mail does the minister’s dirty work – again
By regular guest blogger Monimbo Once again the Daily Mail is the favoured news outlet for a government minister, and once again it fails to check if he’s actually right. This time the story is about 6,000 council tenants who … Continue reading
Homeless people are ‘the likes of us’.
Michael Collins is styled as a biographer of the working class, with his best known work being ‘The Likes of Us’ published in 2004. The book’s rosy view of working class culture in history and how it was destroyed by social … Continue reading
The build up to HRA reform
Monimbo With self-financing for council housing just 139 days away we can expect a plethora of reports and advice to councils on what they can do to maximise the benefits. The latest has been produced by Navigant for London Councils, which … Continue reading
Not just deserts, just puddings
It’s a complicated business, housing. Those poor souls at the Policy Exchange and their pollsters YouGov apparently can’t tell the difference between social housing and council housing. Despite generating alarming headlines (‘Public backs limit to social housing areas’ – thanks, … Continue reading
Right to transfer
Attracting virtually no comment at the time it was passed, an obscure clause in Labour’s 2008 Housing and Regeneration Act could offer council tenants a unique but controversial way of owning and running their own homes. Section 34A, as it … Continue reading
What will housing look like at Christmas 2014?
Just published on the Labour Housing Group website is a fascinating article by LHG Executive member Graham Martin, who tries to predict what will happen to the 3 main tenures between now and Xmas four years hence, when we will … Continue reading
