... at the DCLG:
Local authorities in England should keep council house rents instead of having them gathered up by Whitehall, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has said. But in return some councils will take on additional housing debt...
The Housing Revenue Account subsidy system currently requires councils to pay council house rents and the majority of receipts from any land or home sales to central government. Ministers then decide how best to redistribute the money back to councils.
Or more to the point, they are continuing with the project which the last Housing Minister in the previous government started, but it's all good.
Import the Third World
2 hours ago
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Yes that's right. If they gave the authority full control over it all I reckon they would build loads more far more effectively. And come out quids in and a better amenity
I'd like to see them build a ring of council houses around the green belt and just tell the NIMBY's to *uck off.
What, the Treasury relinquishing control of a revenue stream? Was that a pig I saw flying past my window?
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