Sentences with phrase «council houses back»

This week, Tory 1922 chairman Graham Brady declared that the challenge for his colleagues was «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».
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».

Not exact matches

Thursday night, The Washington Post and several other outlets reported that the president had decided to oust Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his national security advisor, although the White House pushed back, saying «there are no changes» at the National Security Council.
In his closing speech at this week's Labour conference, Mr Corbyn pledged to curb rents in the private sector and said any redevelopment of a housing estate under a Labour government would have to be backed by a council ballot of residents.
Ed — how would you advise a parent member of a district student health advisory council to recommend an evaluation of the «back of the house» in order to «capture millions through a multitude of efficiencies.»
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Monday indicated to reporters his Democratic conference's one - house budget measure will seek to roll back efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to expand his powers over the budget and gain more transparency over the Regional Economic Development Councils.
Last week, Susan and Lucy, along with other residents, teamed up with housing activists to call on councils to bring them back to London and to investigate the suitability of Boundary House as accommodation for families.
A few years after moving, we fell on hard times and ended up back in a council house.
So far councils have written back to DCLG with information on what the government estimates to be 600 social and council housing blocks.
That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.
Labour councils increasingly have a policy of in - house as the preferred provider and many councils have brought bin collections, cleaners, and IT services back in - house, insourcing privatized contracts to save money for council tax payers and to ensure good terms and conditions for staff.
Miliband will also back proposals for local councils to be given more control of the ballooning housing benefit budget.
Common Council members say they back inclusionary zoning, which requires new housing to set aside a certain percentage of units as affordable housing.
Buffalo's Common Council is starting yet another look at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority after the heat went out for tenants at the Frederick Douglass Towers and it took a long time to get it back on.
Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.
The LibDems and Tories should promise low - income, public sector tenants that they will bring back a programme of heavily discounted council house sales.
Back in 2006 the Council of Mortgage Lenders pointed out that a large chunk of recorded first time buyers were really returning from homeownership abroad, or had significant help from their families — who could presumably only help because they had accumulated a lot of housing equity themselves.
A judge has dismissed a NYC Council - backed suit that sought to delay the implementation of Bloomberg's plan to build market - rate housing on city - owned land adjacent to public housing projects.
That relationship is already being tested, as the administration attempts to persuade Council members to back a key component of the mayor's affordable housing plan.
«I want you to support and back me fully in the implementation of the policy,» the President said when he met Chiefs from the Ahafo Council of Chiefs at the Flagstaff House.
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito was set be honored Thursday night by a Brooklyn - based housing non-profit — the same group that had $ 12.27 million in back taxes and...
Council Member Eric Ulrich harshly condemned the City's Build It Back program Monday, calling for the resignation of Amy Peterson, the Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery Operations who oversees Build It Back.
Syracuse Common Council approved Federal Emergency Management Agency flood zone tax exemptions while pushed back a vote on Section 8 housing discrimination.
Cortland City Council met Tuesday night and learned of preliminary plans for a new YWCA - backed housing
Back In January, he published damning research which found Labour councils in the capital had built on average nearly 70 per cent more affordable housing than Tory - led boroughs since 2013.
And will he back the view of his fellow party members who warned Ukip supporters who have boards up in their garden that they must be taken down because, «They're our houses, they're council houses».
Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).
The indictment states the fraud took place between 2012 and 2016 and involved defrauding various agencies, including the New York City Council, New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the New York City Build it Back Program and a federal bankruptcy court in Brooklyn.
«You can not have an affordable housing plan where the housing is built on the back of exploited workers,» said Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York.
The only Trump administration engagement on climate change came at the start of the week, when White House National Economic Council chief Gary Cohn hosted counterparts for a Monday morning breakfast to reiterate that the United States would exit Paris and to squash reports that it might be searching for a way back in.
The business - backed, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has crafted model bills similar to the one (SB 1718, HB 1191) now on its way to the Senate floor in Florida; the House approved an identical measure last week along partisan lines.
Harrow and Ealing councils have taken their library services back in - house following the collapse of contractor Carillion.
 The event was held at the Caprice Bar and Grill, which, working in conjunction with the San Pedro House of Culture, the San Pedro Cultural Committee and the San Pedro Town Council, worked hard to ensure that one of the islandÂ's traditional festivals was brought back to life with resounding success.
With all of this in mind, even amid Papalpalooza over #PopeforPlanet, it's worth drawing attention to the new National Research Council report aiming to clarify the risk, putting the onus back on Congress and the White House to figure out how to put more of the responsibility for building in harm's way on those doing the building.
Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in - depth investigation, «EXPOSED: The State Policy Network — The Powerful Right - Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government,» reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right - wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)- backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right - wing network of funders.
Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, an in - depth investigation reveals that SPN and its state affiliates are major drivers of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)- backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right - wing network of funders.
Describing The National Intelligence Council's report on Implications for U. S. National Security of Anticipated Climate Change, which backs up the Presidential Memorandum on Climate Change and National Security released by the White House, Ebell says: [77]
He was among those who founded the NSW Aboriginal Land Council back in 1977 and the Aboriginal Housing Company, was inaugural chair of the Aboriginal Legal Service and also headed up the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service, as well as serving as deputy director of ATSIC.
«After four years of almost continuous improvement across all indicators, apartment markets have taken a small step back,» says Mark Obrinsky, vice president of research and chief economist at the National Multi Housing Council.
But the administration «has no desire to erode traditional environmental protections or roll back or strip protections,» Alex Herrgott, associate director of infrastructure at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said during a presentation at the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting in Washington in January.
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