Sentences with phrase «council houses»

For both men and women low educational attainment predicts whether they would be living in council housing and whether they are receiving state benefits.

Housing associations have added to the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s and 1970s.

As a result, Labour councils, for example, waste valuable time preparing large scale council house building plans.

Because governments and local councils wanted to make sure children got a decent start in life, so mothers were given priority for council housing.

After all that was the political thinking that made council house sales so popular with working class voters.

True, people who had bought council houses between 1983 and 1992 were less likely than local authority tenants to have voted Labour.

And she announced the building of more council houses and a cap on energy prices.

If we built half a million new council houses, then we wouldn't need to give so much money to private landlords in the form of housing benefit.

The government claims that these new proposals will increase house building and reduced council house waiting lists, by replacing each social unit sold.

The decline in new house building is long term and has been noticeable since the almost complete collapse in the construction of council housing since the 1980s.

The project is a collaboration with the residents of a rundown council housing estate to clean up the neighbourhood, paint empty houses and establish a local market.

Like so many council houses of its time, it was well built, with big rooms and a large garden.

I don't really know anything about council housing and interaction with the benefits system etc..

Next year's reform of council housing finance means that local authorities could start building again, though more work is needed to get the most from this.

It may not be the mass council housing of old though.

There are less council houses for rent north of the border now than there were 50 years ago, according to a Scottish housing and homelessness charity.

Stop council estate sell - offs and build high - standard, eco-friendly, affordable council housing.

The problem is clear, there are not enough council houses to meet the demand.

At the end of the 1970s, 42 % of the population lived in council housing.

The building of council housing from the late 1920s until the late 1960s established the modern village with 85 % of residents renting from the local authority.

I am also optimistic that the deal brokered with the Welsh Government by Danny Alexander to come out of the housing revenue subsidy system, and which will make # 33 million available to those eleven councils that still hold council housing stock, will see more homes built.

This is total nonsense, because council rents are lower than those in the private rented sector, and anyway the reason why most people in low paid work can't get council housing is because there is not enough of it, so it has become an emergency service for those in the most desperate need.

He was brought up in a Welsh council house by his mother, a single parent.

I don't see that reviewing new council house tenants in five years, and if their situation has improved moving them on, is going to do anything to deal with the problem we have today,» she told the Today programme.

There is no evidence that immigrants are able to jump council housing queues, according to a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

For Melanie Pither, who shares a small two bedroom council house with her husband Steve and three children, change can't come quickly enough.

The audience greets the idea of putting MPs in council houses with an enormous cheer.

And Graham Brady has declared that the challenge for his colleagues is «to come up with solutions that are as appealing, and encapsulate our principles as perfectly, as the sale of council houses back in the 1980s».

In his inimitable podium - thumping style, Prescott told the packed hall that the capital receipts from council house sales of the 1980s — that local authorities were banned from spending — would be released in order to build new houses.

Councils in «impossible situation» as huge discounts leave doubts over whether council houses sold to tenants can be replaced, reports Anita Pati

Four days ago DCLG wrote to councils in England - housing is a devolved issue - asking for the number of social and council housing blocks in each area above 18m in height, that used aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding.

The Woolfe family then moved to the suburb of Burnage, before receiving their own council house.

People in work, volunteers and foster carers will be able to jump council house queues, Ed Miliband will pledge today.

He was employed by the Telford development corporation, Walsall council housing department and then, for 10 years, until his election to the House of Commons in 1992, he pursued his lifelong interest in encouraging the development of industrial co-operatives as a business development adviser for the Black Country co-operative development agency.

Her willpower drove us all on through the privatisation of state assets; council houses first and then the nationalised industries: British Telecom, followed by gas, electricity and water, though strangely there are few cartoons on this.

If we stopped seeing Council Housing as handouts to benefit claimants and saw them as homes for hard working people on low wages, the debate could change entirely IMO.

Largely white, lower middle - class, owner - occupied former council houses and large scale new - build private estates, especially in Amblecote.

The fictional council house development in Greater Manchester that forms the backdrop to Shameless, one of Britain's longest - running drama series, is packed with dodgy incident.

Tonight, minneAppleseed present once again at a Hawthorne Neighborhood Council Housing Committee meeting.

«We already provide council housing across seven London boroughs and are committed to delivering 3,700 new homes on sites across the capital.

standing in Birmingham's old Council House Square (now Victoria Square, of course).

Ministers have vowed to press ahead with their «bedroom tax» on under - occupied council housing, after yet another government defeat in the Lords.

Ending security of council house tenure?

Labour in Wales were proud to state Council house building program was going ahead my council is building 50 new homes this year, down comes Miliband and ordered Labour to change it to affordable homes to buy or red but to buy would be better.

Azizkolkata, 34 years Council house street, West Bengal.

[3] However Labour targeted the Conservative wards of Derby, Newburgh and Parbold, while criticising the Conservatives for holding a failed vote on transferring council housing.