Council Housing

Benefit Restrictions Would Apply To Britons As Well As Immigrants, Downing Street Admits

Posted 04.03.2013 | UK Politics

Any restrictions on health and welfare benefits for immigrants from European Union states would have to apply equally to UK citizens under EU law, Dow...

We Need to Get a Grip on Housing Policy

Alex Morton | Posted 21.10.2012 | UK Politics
Alex Morton

Existing tenants are not affected by this measure. We need to get a grip on housing policy. This is a quick and popular option to help get the economy going and people housed. Government cannot afford to delay.

Too Many Homes Going To Foreigners, Claims Senior Labour MP

PA | Posted 14.06.2012 | UK Politics

The Government should review who is given priority in housing queues after figures showed that nearly half of new tenants in some parts of the capital...

PHOTO: Council Tenant Turns House Into Pig Sty, Literally

PA | Posted 23.03.2012 | UK

A council is attempting to trace a tenant who caused thousands of pounds of damage to a house after keeping a pig inside the property. Housing staf...

Government Announces £430m Funding For Council Housing

PA | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced more than £430 million of funding to help councils as part of a scheme which encourages the building of n...

Thousands Of Council Tenants 'Sub-Letting Property'

PA | Posted 11.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Thousands of people in social housing are committing fraud by sub-letting their property, research has suggested. Informati...

Who Is The Labour Housing Minister?

James Mills | Posted 26.09.2011 | UK Politics
James Mills

It concerns me greatly, and should all Labour party supporters for that matter, that possibly the biggest policy area for the next 10 years, and at a time when housing policy is under one of its biggest shake ups in a generation, Labour is found to be almost vacant.