Sentences with phrase «on social housing»

Moving away from the owner - occupied sector, there were a couple of interesting points on social housing and the private rented sector.

This doesn't include the 168,000 Ontario households on the social housing waiting list.

«When in England alone there are nearly two million households on the social housing waiting list and over a quarter of a million tenants are living in overcrowded homes, this measure is needed to make better use of our housing stock,» a spokesperson said.

Jeremy Corbyn, a member of the left - wing Campaign Group welcomed Ms Harman's concentration on social class and called on ministers to follow it with more spending on social housing and education in poor areas.

The Social Liberal Forum welcomes the Coalition Government's commitment to building 150,000 affordable homes over the course of this parliament, which goes some way to benefiting some of the 4 million people on social housing waiting lists.

There's room here for Labour to secure a major political gain by making radical promises on social house building, but it has to be prepared to make the case for borrowing to fund long - term development first.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

The private member's bill and Grenfell have also resulted in the announcement by Sajid Javid MP on 19th September at the National Housing Federation annual conference 2017 that the government would be bringing forward a green paper on social housing in England.

«The bill suffers from its own crippling poverty of ambition, and contains too little on affordable housing, too little on social housing and too little on sustainable housing.»

Refuges across the country, including large national providers such as Refuge, are despairing at how the government's benefit cap on social housing will affect them.

«I've been to Govanhill twice this year to film for Dispossession, a documentary on the social housing crisis,» Sng says.

«He said: «I feel so strongly about what the Government are doing to my constituents and similarly placed constituents around the country that I call on both social housing and housing association landlords to defy the measures, not by not operating them, but by doing what landlords did after the Nine Years» War, when a Government similarly stretched for money imposed a window tax.

Experts say the pressure on social housing from migrants is heavily overstated.

There was somewhat predictable outrage from some parts of the left over the weekend, when Labour's unloved DWP shadow, Liam Byrne, announced a new approach to welfare reform including emphasis on contributions, a full employment strategy and giving councils the option to give those who work or contribute to their communities» priority on social housing lists.

Zac Goldsmith's policies on social housing during the London mayoral election in 2016 suggested he had the capacity to overcome the emotional handicap of wealth.

Opponents say there is not enough housing stock with limited rooms, so the cut in benefits amounts to a tax on social housing tenants, given many have nowhere else to go.

«I've been determined that we get Britain building and help the thousands of families who for years have been left languishing on social housing waiting lists,» he said.

Why did Labour fail so miserably on social housing?

(In London, the emphasis on social housing had a political bent, in light of Grenfell Tower, a public housing block in the city's Notting Hill district that caught fire in June, killing at least 80 people.)

Erskine went on to develop his entire career in Sweden, mainly focusing on social housing which reflects the smart thinking on space and living The Box embodies.

It will use electricity sourced from Banister House Solar, the UK's largest community energy scheme established on social housing, which was launched in 2015.

Stating that he wanted to «kick off a nationwide conversation on social housing».

Over 1,000 new jobs will be created to install solar panels on social housing across England and Wales and 100,000 households will receive panels over the next 18 months, reducing their energy bills to an average of # 240.

Our client requires a domestic gas servicing engineer to work on a social housing contract in the Halifax area.

The same year, the estimated number of people on the social housing waiting register in England reached 1.7 million.

It's only right that we bring fairness back to the system: when in England alone there are nearly 2 million households on the social housing waiting list and over a quarter of a million tenants are living in overcrowded homes.

Successive governments have squeezed spending on social housing, putting greater pressure on the need for affordable social housing.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has defended controversial plans to charge social housing tenants for spare rooms in their homes, or ask them to move into smaller homes saying it will help those on social housing waiting lists, and families living in overcrowded homes.