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
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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.
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. Phone 020 7219 4450
Email to: info@support4councilhousing.org.uk
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Introduction
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Case for council housing
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Fully funding allowances: calculating ‘level of need’
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The money's there: debt write-off, gap funding and receipts
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Ring-fencing the money that belongs to council housing
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Housing finance: national HRA or self-financing
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Building a third generation of first class council housing
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Fair and balanced debate
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Case against privatisation
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