New policies pose a huge risk to the future of social housing

Last Friday the government confirmed that money made from the sale of council homes could go towards buying schemes, instead of building new social housing.
UNISON believes that this change could divert funding away from the building of desperately needed council homes to replace those that have been sold off.
Councils need flexibility and adequate funding to build more homes at scale and pace, not a framework which will still restrict local action and is insufficient to address the decline in s