Today’s protest outside the Houses of Parliament against the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 This Bill will continue to accelerate the loss of Council Homes as it compels Local Councils to sell off Council Homes AND Housing Association Homes – “Security of Tenure” – is set to become a thing of the past if this Bill comes into Law. Kill the Housing Bill – Secure Homes for All https://www.rt.com/uk/327979-housing-bill-protest-london/ Instead what we need to do is to remove the Right to Buy and instead offer something like ‘Help to Buy’ for social housing tenants (and for all others on low to middle incomes) who want to buy their own home but have been squeezed out of the private property market: Councils could build as a proportion of council homes ‘truly affordable homes’ on newly built part-rent/part-buy developments for this purpose –  freeing up a proportion of wholly rented social housing for more people on the housing list. Compounded with this is the fact that according to the National Housing Federation the UK is already short of the half a million homes needed to meet our housing needs.  In Lewisham the Local Councillors have said that we need 1700 new homes a … Continue reading “KILL THE HOUSING BILL” Campaign