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|ff11=End the injustice of the state taking 50% of the surplus in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme and introduce new sharing arrangements so that 10% goes to government and 90% stays with scheme members
|ff12=Ensure that the pensions of UK citizens living overseas rise in line with pensions in Britain
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|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Housing
|1=Housing
|ff1=Bring system-wide change, so that a tragedy like Grenfell never happens again
|ff2=Introduce a £1 billion Fire Safety Fund to fit sprinklers and other fire safety measures in all high- rise council and housing association tower blocks
|ff3=Enforce the replacement of dangerous Grenfell- style cladding on all high-rise homes and buildings
|ff4=Introduce mandatory building standards and guidance, inspected and enforced by fully trained Fire and Rescue Service fire safety officers
|ff5=Create a new Department for Housing
|ff6=Make Homes England a more accountable national housing agency
|ff7=Put councils in the driving seat of local housing
|ff8=Set out a strategy for a flourishing construction sector with a skilled workforce and full rights at work
|ff9=Set up a new English Sovereign Land Trust, with powers to buy land more cheaply for low-cost housing
|ff10=Use public land to build this housing, not sell it off to the highest bidder
|ff11=Developers will face new ‘use it or lose it’ taxes on stalled housing developments
|ff12=Keep the Land Registry in public hands, and make ownership of land more transparent
|ff13=Make brownfield sites the priority for development and protect the green belt
|ff14=Tackle the climate crisis and cut energy bills by introducing a tough, new zero-carbon homes standard for all new homes
|ff15=Upgrade millions of existing homes to make them more energy efficient
|ff16=Review the planning guidance for developments in flood risk areas
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|pagename=Council and Social Homes
|pagesource=Manifesto 2019:Tackle Poverty and Inequality - Housing - Council and Social Homes
|1=Council and Social Homes
|ff1=Deliver a new social housebuilding programme of more than a million homes over a decade, with council housing at its heart
|ff2=By the end of the Parliament we will be building at an annual rate of at least 150,000 council and social homes
|ff3=100,000 houses built by councils for social rent in the biggest council housebuilding programme in more than a generation
|ff4=Establish a new duty on councils to plan and build these homes in their area
|ff5=Fund councils to build these home with backing from national government
|ff6=Scrap the Conservatives’ bogus definition of ‘affordable’, set as high as 80% of market rents, and replace it with a definition linked to local incomes
|ff7=These council and housing association homes will be more affordable than market housing and built to higher standards
|ff8=End the conversion of office blocks to homes that sidestep planning permission through ‘permitted development’
|ff9=Stop the haemorrhage of low- cost homes by ending the right to buy
|ff10=Stop the forced conversion of social rented homes to so-called ‘affordable rent’
|ff11=Review the case for reducing the amount of housing debt councils currently hold
|ff12=Give councils the powers and funding to buy back homes from private landlords
|ff13=Give tenants a stronger say in the management of their homes
|ff14=Stop social cleansing by making 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
|ff15=Fund a new Decent Homes programme to bring all council and housing association homes up to a good standard
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