Fund construction of new affordable social housing
- 31 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 64 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
We urge the Government to provide funding for more affordable social housing, to reduce expenditure on benefits for private housing costs. This initiative aims to assist the less fortunate, disabled and those struggling with addiction, and to foster a more sustainable future for all.
Found: We believe addressing the housing crisis is paramount to prevent a deepening cycle of homelessness and
New law to guarantee new social housing tenancies for victims of violence
- 196 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 235 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
I want a new housing law passed that protects victims of all forms of violence, including domestic violence, that hold social housing tenancies. If they flee their home they should have a guaranteed right to be quickly offered a new tenancy e.g through a management move or a reciprocal move.
Found: ensure that anyone who has to flee their home due to violence or fear of violence that holds a social housing
Change Universal Credit Housing Element Rules when rent is set per week
- 42 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 58 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
When someone's rent is set per week, including most social housing tenants, the housing element for Universal Credit is calculated by multiplying this by 52, then dividing by 12. However, some Housing Years there are 53 Mondays in the Year, so when this happens people can go into rent arrears.
Found: If paying monthly, the Housing Association have said its £1045.73 I need to pay.
Mentions:
1: Griffin, Mark (Lab - Central Scotland) We have talked about housing voids and the huge difficulties that councils and housing associations have - Speech Link
2: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) and over £90 million for discretionary housing payments; welcomes the actions in the Housing (Scotland - Speech Link
3: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) uphold legal housing rights. - Speech Link
4: Balfour, Jeremy (Con - Lothian) It has slashed the housing budget, in a move that the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations has - Speech Link
Require Public Access Defibrillators in newly built housing projects
- 542 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 576 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
I want the Government to introduce legislation that ensures the compulsory placement of a Public Access Defibrillator [PAD] by developers in newly built housing projects. Newly built housing projects would be any developments >six houses of any style from 2024 onwards.
Found: I propose compulsory PADs to be fitted in newly built housing projects by the developers to improve access
Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) , one of the worst housing associations in England—pity Awaab—in a town with an incompetent, inefficient - Speech Link
2: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) I will give some vital statistics: 11.7% of our houses are officially deemed to be in housing deprivation - Speech Link
3: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) I call them “so-called housing associations”; I was always opposed to them and I never supported the - Speech Link
Create a priority housing, healthcare and welfare system for veterans
- 120 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 165 - 2 added in the past 24hrs)
The Government should create a priority system for veterans that entitles them to priority over housing and other welfare benefits, and funds priority health services for veterans.
Found: Prioritising them in their housing, healthcare and welfare services can be a way to show gratitude for
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: Housing statistics: Management of local authority housingFound: Housing statistics: Management of local authority housing
Mentions:
1: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) Social housing is a finite resource and in any compassionate society it is incumbent upon the Government - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) By the 1980s we were in a position where, since the 1920s, social housing had provided decent housing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) , despite our severe housing emergency, the supply of genuinely affordable housing is falling. - Speech Link