Search News and Blogs, Media tagged housing crisis

New Tenancy Fees Act (Engalnd) comes into force on 1 June – Scotland and Wales have own legislation

Thursday 19 April 2018 For immediate release Commenting on Labour’s plans to build a million ‘genuinely affordable’ properties over 10 years, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “It’s great to see Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party taking the housing crisis so seriously. “A million genuinely affordable homes would be a good start to fixing our broken […]

Local government delegates hear plea for a housing policy which will help people: ‘build, build, build’

UNISON tells London housing associations planning merger that success of plans relies on ‘efforts of dedicated workforce’

To help, the union has published a briefing on the bill, which can be downloaded from the UNISON websites and includes suggestions for how people can take part in the campaign. The bill […]

Union demands a housing policy that works for working people as it publishes a manifesto for a new decade

Housing is out of reach for public service workers, declares local government conference

Meeting just three-days after Grenfell anniversary, conference calls for safe and affordable housing for all

The blame, she added, lay with “the politics of austerity, privatisation and a lack of building council houses, with renovation on the cheap.” Sending “heartfelt […]

Plans to increase the country’s housing stock are welcome, but do nothing to tackle the problems for those on low incomes

The union calls on people to respond to the government’s consultation on it’s new scheme, which will not solve the housing crisis

Plans to abolish ‘no-fault’ evictions are welcome, says union, but more needs to be done for private tenants

Government says it will not press ahead with policy which would have forced council in England to charge market rents to so-called high earners

Now 80, he shows no signs of stopping. And with his long-time collaborator, writer Paul Laverty, he’s produced one of his most […]

UNISON has published a new briefing on the 2016 Housing and Planning Act (England)