Sentences with phrase «in council housing»

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

I grew up in a council house until the age of 12 and I have nothing but good memories of the estate where I lived.

A few years after moving, we fell on hard times and ended up back in a council house.

Currently, these are allocated in several different ways including criteria set by local councils, for example whether potential buyers work in the local area or if they are already in council housing.

When the government talks about its «pay to stay» policy, ministers usually point to all those greedy social housing tenants who earn mega bucks but continue living in a council house.

Mr. Hollobone: Council tenants in the borough of Kettering pay # 12 million a year in council rent, # 3 million of which goes into the Treasury coffers and is not reinvested in council housing in Kettering.

Crabb and Javid will hope to define themselves with their «blue - collar Conservative» credentials — Crabb was raised in a council house by a single mother; Javid is the son of a bus driver — in contrast to the Old Etonian Johnson.

Councils in London, who twenty years ago would have been able to rehouse a homeless family in council housing, are now having to make deals with private landlords and lettings agents in Birmingham to find them somewhere to live.

Brought up in a council house by a single mother who at times relied on benefits, his appointment made a refreshing change to a Cabinet made up largely of millionaires.

Indeed, most LHA tenants who are not in council housing have long been driven out of the area.

Born in Herefordshire, he was brought up in an orphanage and later in foster care in a council house.

The plans mean new tenants will lose the right to live in a council house for life and instead local authorities will be able set a fixed term tenancy of between two and five years.

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

It takes place in a council housing office or a warehouse tucked away on some industrial estate.

Destruction of thousands of houses during WW2 sparks major boom in council housing, shaped by New Towns Act 1946 and Town and Country Planning Act 1947

Under the scheme tenants who have been in a council house over five years receive a 35 % discount, with an additional one per cent for each added year up to a maximum of # 75,000.

I look around at the Polish people who now live in council houses around me, one lad lives in a three bedroom council house on his own, yet the lady who has been waiting for five years with her kids, is still waiting.

Being brought up in a council house gave Labour's Sadiq Khan a «stable and secure» home.

Caught off guard, Farage ended up causing some controversy by defending the use of such terms on the grounds that people who live in council houses simply talk like that.

«In the 80s, right to buy helped millions of people living in council housing achieve their aspiration of owning their own home.

He told the Mirror: «There is an urgent need to reverse the long - term decline in council housing in this country.

[3] However the Conservatives were hoping to gain at least two seats in the election and raised increases in council house rents and controversy over disability benefits as issues where they could benefit from.

We lived with my grandmother, upstairs in a council house in Tottenham.

Will this measure lead to a renaissance in council house building on the scale that is needed to assist in reaching the 300,000 new homes target?»

One parliamentary colleague describes how his father, having worked all his adult life, raised a family in their council house and never failed to pay his rent on time, was philosophical about the fact that his modest request for a new home, closer to relatives, would remain at the bottom of the priorities list.

Brought up in a council house in North Kensington by his mother, Bailey is a co-founder of My Generation, a charity that encourages young people to take greater responsibility in tackling drug use and antisocial behaviour.

By choosing Goldsmith, the Eton - educated son of a billionaire hedge fund owner, as their candidate against Labour's Sadiq Khan, a son of an immigrant bus driver raised in a council house, the Tories have already allowed Labour to paint this as a choice between «their London and ours».

For the first five years of his life he was brought up in an orphanage in Hereford, [2] and later grew up in foster care living in a council house.

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

Labour lost the election, and power passed to the strongly Thatcherite administration led by Sir Horace Cutler who in turn moved to cut public spending and encourage those living in council houses to buy their own homes.

But at the same time, in those places where they're working but can't afford to live, there are people on salaries of # 40, # 60, # 80,000 paying sub-market rents and living in council houses.

«I lived in a council house, as did all of my friends.

Brought up in a council house, Khan has seven brothers and one sister.

F: «As an Englishman, my mother and father lived in a council house, and Margaret Thatcher let my parents buy their council house»

Dr. J of blog The Gormogons wrote:» [I] thought we were safe, from more socialist pap but then along came Frankie and June, a couple raising their family, along with the rest of their clan, in council housing.»

The prime minister had outlined plans to remove the lifetime security of tenure currently enjoyed by those living in council housing, in a bid to make Britain's social housing more efficient.

The Sunday newspaper notes that Brighton Kemptown's Simon Radford - Kirby (brought up in a council house) has shortened his name to a simpler Simon Kirby but without pressure from CCHQ.

A former colleague told me that people who live in council houses are «alright» but that he wished they'd «tidy up their gardens».

«His dad moved here, lived in a council house and moved into a house of his own.

She was brought up in a council house, went to a school they couldn't even be bothered to give a name — it was just called the Church of England school — and was told that as a future career she could visit people in prison.

At that time more than 60 % of Glasgow's citizens lived in Council housing, and Council houses were still being built.

Dear Prime Minister, we are strongly opposed to your plan to end lifetime tenancies for people living in council housing.

He grew up in a council house in East Kilbride.

Those in council housing vote Labour and those in private homes vote Tory?