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DCH outline response to Labour Housing Review 2017-8 Outline for responses to Labour Social Housing Review and call for evidence - deadline 31 January 2018

03/01/18

DCH at Labour conference

26/09/15

Tenants manifesto for 2015

15/03/15

March for Homes support grows Updated leaflet includes growing support list

31/12/14

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28/09/12

DCH Conference Paper on Credit Crunch

30/11/08

Other useful reports

Labour's Social Housing Review and call for evidence

Labour Party

22/12/17

Everyone knows we have a housing crisis: let's do something about it

Keith Taylor Green MEP south east England

19/03/15

Election 2015 briefing - Housing

Class

19/02/15

MIPIM - Carving up our Communities

Unite the Union

14/10/14

Bricks or Benefits? Rebalancing housing investment

Shelter

23/05/12

Council housing: A real future (consultation)

CLG

25/03/10

Building Britain out of Recession

Unite

17/06/09

Fiscal Stimulus Paper

The 2020 Group

01/02/09

Launch document

The 2020 Group

01/02/09

Consultation on changes to revenue and capital rules for new council housing

APSE

30/01/09

New Rules to Encourage Councils to Build More Homes

CIH

30/01/09

COUNCILS AND THE HOUSING

LGA

06/05/08

Firm Foundations: The Future of Housing in Scotland

31/10/07

The Demand for Social Rented Housing A Review of Data Sources and Supporting Case Study Material

Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research

31/03/06

"The private housing market is in crisis, and cannot deliver the homes we need. Evidence to our inquiry showed the massive scale of demand for council housing throughout the country. We need a mass programme of new council housing for political, social and economic reasons.
Public land should be used to build public housing. The social costs of not acting are enormous, while using councils to deliver council housing has direct benefits to tenants and to society. Councils can build more cheaply than RSLs and private-public partnerships. The costs of a large-scale programme of council homes would be less than the costs of not building them. Not building one million new council homes could cost £21.5 billion a year in the direct and indirect costs of homelessness alone.
...councils must be properly funded to build new council housing."

(House of Commons Council Housing Group, Time to Invest, chapter 6 )

Press Articles

Housing crisis as eviction ban comes to an end

Morning Star

11/09/20

It's time for a new squatter's movement

Socialist Worker

05/09/20

Budget 2020 on housing has hallmarks of Conservative government

'i' Newspaper

12/03/20

Budget 2020 (housing)