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Fourth Option for Council Housing Petition
By Steve Hanlon | April 22, 2007
This petition on the PM’s website calls on the government to provide the “Fourth Option”:
Petition to: provide the Fourth Option of direct investment in council housing as an alternative to privatisation by stock transfer, PFI or ALMO, to enable local authorities to respect the choice of their tenants and bring all homes up to at least the governments Decent Homes Standard by 2010 and also build a new generation of decent, affordable and secure council homes for rent, accountable to an elected local authority landlord, and to give a clear commitment to defend the lifelong secure tenancy that council tenants enjoy and uphold the right of everyone who needs or wants to rent public housing to do so without time limit or means testing so that council housing can again become a tenure of choice and council estates can once again be a place that people are proud to live in.
During the stock transfer vote in West Lancs we argued that the fourth option would be a better way forward for the local housing than the wholesale transfer to the private sector that the Tories wanted. Hopefully this petition will attract the signatures of all those who believe in good quality social housing, and that council stock is an important part of the social housing mix.
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