HOUSE OF COMMONS
COUNCIL HOUSING GROUP
Council Housing: Time to Invest
Fair funding, investment and building council housing - our report to the Government Review of Council Housing Finance


Introduction
Ministers launched a 'Review of Council Housing Finance' in 2007 with the promise to "ensure that we have a sustainable, long term system for financing council housing" and "consider evidence about the need to spend on management, maintenance and repairs". The Housing Minister is now also consulting on new rules that will enable local authorities to start building new council housing again.
To influence the outcome of these consultations our group issued a call for evidence to identify the level of funding required to manage, maintain, repair and improve existing council housing and to start building a third generation of first class council homes.
We have received written evidence from a wide range of organisations. On 25th February 200 tenants, elected councillors, council officers, trade unionists and academics took part in our inquiry session at Westminster. We heard verbal evidence from 26 delegations during the day.
We are now publishing the report of our inquiry.
Austin Mitchell MP, chair House of Commons Council Housing group
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.
Phone 020 7219 4450

Email to: info@support4councilhousing.org.uk

Report from our first inquiry in 2004/5
4 page summary
 		40 page full report
MPs report being printed

The full report of the House of Commons Council Housing Group' inquiry Council Housing: Time to Invest is being printed and will be available on 5th September.
Order copies now to make sure tenants, trade unionists and councillors in your area read the new evidence. Discounts available for bulk orders if you order in advance. Email info@support4councilhousing.org.uk to order copies.
You can also download just the summary and recommendations.

'Council House Building'
Early Day Motion 355
(EDM 355) in Parliament
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Interim papers still available for download
Introduction Case for council housing Fully funding allowances: calculating ‘level of need’
Introduction Paper 1 Case for council housing Paper 2 Fully funding allowances
The money's there: debt write-off, gap funding and receipts Ring-fencing the money that belongs to council housing Housing finance: national HRA or self-financing
Paper 3 The money's there Paper 4 Ring-fencing Paper 5 Housing finance
Building a third generation of first class council housing Fair and balanced debate Case against privatisation
Paper 6 Building new Paper 7 Fair and balanced debate Paper 8 Case against privatisation
Members of the group include
Chair, Austin Mitchell MP,
V.Chair, Paul Holmes MP
Sec, Kelvin Hopkins MP
and...

The Council Housing group works closely with
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