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“Social Housing providers received only £200mill through the building safety fund' compared to £2bill granted to private building owners.
 
Housing associations & their tenants shouldn’t have to foot the bill for remediation works. We need more funding to make these homes safe.

The Minister for Social Housing has responded to our letter about the Government's proposed reforms to how social housing is allocated in England.

Read the response 👇

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Next week, we'll be questioning the Minister for Local Government, Simon Hoare MP, as part of our inquiry about Oflog.

We'll also hear from the Director General for Local Government, Resilience and Communities at @LUHC.

Find out more 👉 committees.parliament.uk/event/21333/fo…

5/ Wednesday 24 April

Remaining stages of the Renters (Reform) Bill

Followed by

Motion to approve a statutory instrument relating to terrorism

We have written to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, @MichaelGove, about the lack of a Government response to LG & SC Ombudsman's current Triennial Review.

Read our letter 👇

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Next week, we'll continue our inquiry about the Office for Local Government by hearing from:

⦿ Prof. Laurence Ferry, @Durham_Uni
⦿ Ed Hammond, Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS)
⦿ Rob Whiteman, @CIPFA
⦿ Cllr Abi Brown, @LGAComms
⦿ Trevor Holden, @DistrictCouncil
⦿ Cllr Keith Stevens, NALC

📣 There's still time to tell us how the home buying and selling process could be improved in England.

We want to hear from you about the transaction process, information provision and conveyancers.

Have your say by 18 April 👉 committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…

We asked the Minister for Housing and Planning, Lee Rowley, whether @LUHC is working effectively with other departments to deliver for children.

Find out more about our inquiry into children, young people and the built environment 👉 committees.parliament.uk/work/7981/chil…

Our Chair has written to the Minister for Social Housing to press the Government for answers on proposed reforms to how social housing is allocated in England.

Find out more 👉 committees.parliament.uk/committee/17/l…

We've found that shared ownership schemes are failing to deliver an affordable route to homeownership.

We're calling on the Government to take urgent and significant action to reform how shared ownership works.

Read our report 👉 committees.parliament.uk/committee/17/l…

Our Chair, Clive Betts MP, questioned the Prime Minister on council finances at this afternoon’s Liaison Committee session.

Find out more about our recent inquiry into financial distress in local authorities on our website 👉 committees.parliament.uk/work/7943/fina…

Clive Betts, chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee asks Rishi Sunak if there is a 'fundamental crisis in local government finance'

The PM replies that councils are the 'backbones of their communities'

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We've launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England.

Send us your suggestions for improving the process by 18 April. Details here 👉 committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…

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On Monday we're continuing our inquiry into children, young people and the built environment by hearing from:

🔘 Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy, Deputy Chief Medical Officer
🔘 Joanna Averley, Chief Planner at Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
🔘 Lee Rowley MP, Minister at Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Watch live: committees.parliament.uk/event/21143/fo…

A new report from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities committee today suggests that millions of people could be at risk of disenfranchisement at the general election, due to the electoral registration system not being up to scratch. politicshome.com/news/article/e…