Housing Follow

Minister for welfare reform Lord Freud is set to justify the cuts he is driving through to housing benefit to an audience on Wednesday of next week.

The Lund Point tower in Newham, east London, overlooks the new Olympic village. Warren has lived in the block for 15 years.

The government claims that the Bill for housing benefit is out of control and is introducing major cuts. Eileen Short examines the myths that surround housing benefit and looks at the impact that the cuts will have.

Tory ministers want to sell off even more of Britain’s remaining council housing stock. The "reboot" of Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme means tenants will be bribed to buy their properties with a discount of up to £75,000.

Some 50 people marched to Haringey Civic Centre in north London on Tuesday of last week to oppose council budget cuts.

Residents in Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly to return the management of their social housing back to the local council.

Over five million people in Britain are currently on the waiting list for social housing—and most of them will probably never be offered a place.

Around 150 people packed into a House of Commons committee room last Tuesday to build the campaign against Tory attacks on housing rights.

Defend Council Housing’s Housing Emergency campaign has launched an open statement against cuts to housing benefits and huge council rent rises.

Tory-run Wandsworth council in south London has backed off from its plans to evict a family from their council home over the riots.

Council tenants in Swindon have rejected the transfer of their 10,500 homes to a new housing association. They voted by over 72 percent to maintain public ownership.

Defend Council Housing held a national meeting last Saturday.