Sentences with phrase «thousands of council houses»

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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

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.

The embattled chairwoman of the New York City Housing Authority — buffeted by scandals over untested lead paint, false testimony and thousands of residents without heat in the winter cold — testified for nearly five hours before the City Council on Tuesday and did not heed calls by the chamber's leader to apologize.

I'll establish Homes for Londoners, a new in - house developer at City Hall, led by me, working with councils and private developers to lever in funding and get thousands of new affordable and market homes built on spare public land and brownfield.

I was proud to be a part of creating thousands of units of affordable housing in the City Council and look forward to continuing that goal.»

Those records are believed to hold the personal information of thousands of unauthorized immigrants, for whom the program was designed, and the Council added the deletion proviso to the legislation as an explicit precaution should a deportation - happy candidate win the White House and seek to requisition the databanks.

A Private Members» Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Nick Hurd MP, it came about after an unprecedented five year campaign supported by dozens of voluntary organisations, trade unions and other representative groups, parish and town councils and tens of thousands of individuals.

«As well as the expense, it led to the absurd situation whereby we were funding a million spare bedrooms at the same time as hundreds of thousands of other families were living in overcrowded homes — with even more on council housing waiting lists.

When in power as part of the Tory - led coalition from 2010 - 15, the Lib Dems voted through a raft of benefit cuts including the bedroom tax, cuts to council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits, as well as presiding over a disability benefit testing system that wrongly denied benefits to thousands of people, and a job centre sanctions system that saw benefits docked for hundreds of thousands of jobseekers.

«When you have insecure tenancies, huge cuts to council budgets and caps on housing benefit happening all at once, you form a brutal concoction which leaves thousands of families without a permanent home.

For example, Ken Clarke had to weigh up not cutting as much as he could from legal advice services, or cutting legal advice and costing the Government more money than if it had left legal advice alone - for under # 100, a family could receive advice on a housing problem from a Citizen's Advice Bureau that could prevent a council having to spend thousands of pounds to house the aforementioned family later on.

Williams, who is currently focused on running for City Council speaker, said as Cuomo helped resurrect a lucrative affordable housing tax credit for rich developers, the city and state have lost thousands of rent - regulated apartments.

The stories we are getting are in the tens, not in the hundreds or thousands,» Philip Nelson, chief executive of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), told a House of Lords inquiry into the effects of Brexit on science on July 19.

Although House was extremely popular, attracting thousands of visitors, the local council didn't like it.