Sentences with phrase «many council houses»

She lived with her parents in a four - bedroom council house and, when her father died a decade ago, she cared for her mother and sang in the church choir.

I had run out of money, but the Refugee Council housed me in a studio flat in Glasgow.

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

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.

Welcoming the promise to make it easier for councils to build council homes, Mr. Dromey added, «Council house building has collapsed from three hundred thousand to three hundred a year in a generation.

♫ Take two 1970's East End council house residents.

So social housing or council housing is out.

Council houses are so much more than just a stop gap, they provide stable homes for families.

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

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.

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

«Never again crumbling council houses in ghetto estates, the high rise nightmares of the 1960s,» he said.

Most of the residents of the Slaithwaite council housing were out, but those that were out appeared tentative.

Why does the single mother get the council house straightaway when the hard - working couple have been waiting for years?

So far councils have written back to DCLG with information on what the government estimates to be 600 social and council housing blocks.

«If you are in the business of devolution, if you understand that is the political message of the time then it does seem to me that London has to retain funds to do things like build council houses.

So, when we have the debate about the Union influence within the Labour Party, let's remember that when Unions last played a real and major role in society on a national level, our country created the NHS, committed to full employment and a council house building programme.

David Cameron is probed on council house tenants, the Housing Bill, private renting costs and starter homes #PMQs https://t.co/KjKaUnwjEU

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.

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

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

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.

But without a real commitment to build more council houses, the housing crisis and the challenges facing the poorest people in society are only going to get worse.

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».

Earlier this week, Politics.co.uk ran an article which featured an interview with a council housing officer in London.

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

Blue collar voters were crucial to Margaret Thatcher's election victories in the 1980s, particularly after the right to buy scheme, which allowed working class voters to buy their council houses.

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

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

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.

For example on housing their ideological position suggests that they would try to build a lot of new council housing.

And what about the estimated 1.7 million people on the waiting lists for a council house?

Large - scale stock transfer, moreover, diminished council housing accounts (which are separate from other revenues and spending), hampering authorities» ability to carry out repairs and improvements.

Council house building, my council has applied and been given five council houses, the waiting list in my area is 3,800.

None of them will do anything to tackle the massive shortage of council houses, indeed some may well make it worse, and none will address the rising cost of private rent.

Continuing the theme of increasing home ownership, the Government will be reinvigorating Right to Buy though increasing the discount offered to those wishing to buy their council house.

And he would be appalled at how the current government is dismantling council housing, at least as we know it, with the Housing and Planning Act.

Tower Hamlets have not built a council house since the 1970's.

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

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

But strange rumblings leaking from the council house reveal that the leadership and senior officers are now busy rebutting Kerslake's review.

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

We need to reform the public sector borrowing requirement to free councils to borrow money against their assets to build council houses (i.e use the EU definition of Public Sector Net Debt).

The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

Social media lit up with activists enthusing about plans to nationalise rail and energy companies, abolish tuition fees and build 100,000 council houses each year.

In Northumberland we're building new council houses this year, providing homes as well as giving the local construction industry a shot in the arm.

He ditched Labour's unilateralism — a difficult decision, both personally as well and politically — he reversed Labour's long - standing opposition to council house sales, and he famously confronted Derek Hatton and his Militant fellow travellers.

Ending security of council house tenure?

Even more worrying is the connected deal Capco struck with Hammersmith and Fulham for two council housing estates in the Earl's Court scheme, a deeply unpopular and flawed scheme.

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