Member-only story
Our housing motion was debated and carried with a qualification. We called for the building of 100,000 council homes, ending the right to buy confirming current policy but recognising it’s stalled, reforming housing finance accounts, greening of the social estate, insourcing of jobs, ending no fault evictions which was a new policy for GMB. We also called on the GMB to mount a political campaign to achieve these goals. The motion was moved by another delegate and was carried with qualification.
The words of our motion were as follows,
M276 End the housing crisis by building social homes
Congress welcomes the housing composite resolution passed at the Labour Party conference in 2021, which included the main demands of the Labour Campaign for Council Housing.
Congress believes that it is necessary for the Government to take action now to end the housing crisis by,
➢ Fully funding councils to deliver the building of 150,000 social rent homes each year, including 100,000 council homes — building on commitments previously made by GMB.
➢ Ending Right to Buy — in recognition that previous attempts to redraw the legislation have failed.
➢ Reviewing council housing debt to address underfunding of housing revenue accounts
