Key Policy


Implement an extensive social homes building programme


Description


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Corresponding Charter Article


C3. Housing

Everyone has the right to warm and comfortable housing. Nobody will be without housing due to financial constraints or personal circumstances.


Policies


EQ185 Deliver a new social housebuilding programme which is always ongoing to meet the needs.


EQ188 Establish a duty on councils to plan and build social homes working with the housing dept
EQ189 Fund councils to build council homes with backing from housing department
EQ190 Scrap the bogus definition of affordable, set as high as 80% of market rents, and replace it with a definition based on our automatic tax credit
EQ191 Civic and housing association homes will be more affordable than market housing and built to higher standards
EQ192 End the conversion of office blocks to homes that sidestep planning permission
EQ193 Our investment bank will offer low interest mortgages at 100%
EQ194 Stop the forced conversion of social rented homes to so-called affordable rent
EQ196 Give the housing department the powers and funding to buy back homes from private landlords
EQ197 Give tenants secure tenancies that are inherited by the children
EQ198 Make sure regeneration only goes ahead when it has the consent of residents, and that all residents are offered a new property on the same site and terms
EQ199 Fund a Decent Homes programme to bring all civic housing up to an excellent standard
EQ203 Ban overseas companies buying housing
EQ204 Bring empty homes back into use by giving councils new powers to tax properties empty for over a year
EQ205 End leasehold
EQ206 End the sale of new leasehold properties, abolish unfair fees and conditions, and give leaseholders the right to buy their freehold at a price they can afford
EQ207 Introduce equivalent rights for freeholders on privately owned estates


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