Southwark has commissioned a report on England’s council housing. The report aims to help the new government ensure that councils can provide more, and better, publicly owned housing.
The report offers five solutions and more than 20 recommendations, from over 100 council landlords and is signed by more than 100 councils, responsible for 1.2 million homes.
The five solutions set out detailed and practical recommendations to the new government. In summary they read as follows:
- A new fair and sustainable Housing Revenue Account (HRA) model, including an urgent £644 million one-off rescue injection, and long-term, guaranteed rent and debt agreements.
- Reforms to unsustainable Right to Buy policies.
- Removing red tape on existing funding.
- A new, long-term Green & Decent Homes Programme.
- Urgent action to restart stalled building projects, avoiding the loss of construction sector capacity and a market downturn.
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