by Paul O'Brien
Friday 19 March 2010
Spoke today at the Defend Council Housing conference London, ‘A manifesto for council housing.’ My talk was promoting two pieces of research APSE have recently completed the first a joint publication with ARCH, on the holistic benefits of retained council housing, ‘Under one roof'; and the second about the work UNISON commissioned from APSE on ‘A new generation of council housing'.
The session also included contributions from Shelter and the lead member for Housing on Reading Council. A really interesting debate took place with the large audience and general agreement emerged that the prominence of retained council housing as an option has grown and that there is a huge need for councils to be funded properly to build a large number of houses once again.
