The LGA responds to a Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee report which calls for building more social homes while ensuring conditions in existing housing stock are improved.
Responding to a Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee report which calls for building more social homes while ensuring conditions in existing housing stock are improved, Cllr Tom Hunt, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Inclusive Growth Committee, said:
“Everyone deserves to live in a safe, warm and decent home.
“We support the report’s call for government to publish its Long Term Housing Strategy and clear roadmap for the next phases of Awaab’s Law. The package of social housing announcements last month will give councils confidence to invest in the long term, but council housing finances remain under severe pressure.
“This should sit alongside extending the Government’s new burdens funding to Housing Revenue Accounts – over a third of which are in deficit this financial year– to help meet requirements on minimum energy efficiency standards, building and fire safety works.”