Prisoners are skilled up to build the homes we most desperately need. These are modular, so can be built in factories with prisoners on day release – and are Net Zero, so are affordable and sustainable.
Birmingham has 861 council homes. It also has 3,658 empty council garages – many of which could be replaced with much needed housing.
Landlords who are unable to raise rents enough to cover their expenses quit the rental market. In under a year, the number of new lets in Scotland dropped by over 25 per cent. The ones that have remained on the market have become increasingly unaffordable.
Language matters, especially around an emotive and complex subject such as homelessness is. There is little forgiveness for imprecision, especially within the policy environment we have created by not articulating our own vision well enough.
A crackdown on people evading a properly-funded shelter system might be fair – but only if that system exists. So if the Government is going to deliver it, why not focus on that significant, positive achievement?
We all know that a stable and supportive home environment is a fundamental building block for a happy and productive life.
Across the UK, over 6,631 people were sleeping rough in September 2022. This figure is growing; the Government must act if they are to keep their commitment to end rough sleeping by 2024.
One way in which the Government could help would be through a temporary increase in the Gift Aid rate. Conservatives introduced Gift Aid in 1990, and now have the chance to enhance it.
The Armed Forces Covenant promises that service men and women will not be disadvantaged as a result of their service. To ensure this is upheld, the five-year time limit needs to be scrapped.
The Government can’t deliver economic prosperity for its electoral coalition without also meeting social challenges.
It seems everyone agrees that the time is right to finally get rid of this legislation.
Make the economic case, abolish priority need, reform the No Course to Public Funds rule, don’t end Everyone In and reform housing authorities.
Some £18 billion a year is incurred as a cost to the taxpayer as a result of reoffending.
It should build on the success of its Housing First scheme and create a National Housing First Programme.
After two hundred years, we are finally repealing the Vagrancy Act. So why are ministers reviving its awful approach with clauses targeting “nuisance rough sleeping”?