Public money for public housing

Photo: Marcus Rose
Councils across the UK need “the ability to rebuild their depleted housing development workforce” and their housing stock, UNISON’s local government conference declared this morning.
The sector has faced a borrowing cap which prevented local government directly meeting the housing needs of its citizens since the Thatcher government of the 1980s. And although the cap has now been lifted, it is now decades since councils had the experience and workforce which p