Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) the private rented sector and the social rented sector, the commonly acknowledged solution is to increase - Speech Link
2: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) social rented homes. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) For 4.2 million of these—around 1.6 million households—social rented housing would be the most appropriate - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) It is about overcrowding in social housing, and indeed the housing crisis. - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) changes to the local housing allowance mean that councils are forced to use the dwindling private rented - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) For 4.2 million of those people, social rented housing would be the most appropriate tenure to address - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) That is why we are taking action to ensure that those who abuse the housing system should not benefit - Speech Link
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Housing Costs Contributions – non-dependa nts Contents Introduction Housing Cost Contribution
Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) A survey by the DCN, which was published just today, shows that housing benefit subsidy covers just 38% - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We will continue to review the situation with housing benefit subsidy rates, but perhaps I can help the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) impact of building social housing. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 08 2024
Inquiry: Energy bills for domestic customersFound: ENB0033 - Energy bills for domestic customers Clarion Housing Group Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: None Officers, stressed the need for serious cost benefit analysis of the benefits of investing in social - Speech Link
2: None rented homes would fail the housing quality standard. - Speech Link
3: None Our tenant members, in the social rented sector, absolutely advocate for and want to negotiate their - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask His Majesty's Government, following recent findings by the Resolution Foundation regarding the affordability and quality of housing, what steps they are taking to (1) address, and (2) mitigate, those challenges.
Answered by Baroness Scott of Bybrook - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Full details of the Government’s long-term plan for housing are available on gov.uk. This includes measures to increase the overall supply and availability of safe, warm and affordable homes. Boosting housing supply is key to affordability: we are on track to deliver our commitment to build one million homes this Parliament, are investing significant funding in affordable housing programmes through the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme and £6 billion Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme, and we have helped over 876,000 households purchase a home since spring 2010 through Government backed schemes.
Housing quality is also central to this plan. We have seen a strong decrease in the number of non-decent homes since 2010. This government has introduced the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, including Awaab’s Law, and is applying the Decent Homes Standard to the private rented sector for the first time through the Renters (Reform) Bill, to ensure that all tenants benefit from homes that are safe and decent
Mentions:
1: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) As we know, the housing bill will be introduced at the appropriate time. - Speech Link
2: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) that she will have to deliver the benefit very soon. - Speech Link
3: Stewart, Alexander (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) regarding any impact on the availability of housing through the private rented sector of its energy - Speech Link
4: Stewart, Alexander (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) sector, thus creating a shortage of housing stock. - Speech Link
5: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) That concludes portfolio questions on social justice. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Feb. 02 2024
Inquiry: Disabled people in the housing sectorFound: DPH0035 - Disabled people in the housing sector Local Government Association Written Evidence
Written Evidence Apr. 29 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: DHH0032 - Decarbonising home heating Northern Housing Consortium Written Evidence