Council housing APPG inquiry into demands for council homes

UNISON highlights the crucial role councils play in enabling and providing homes to meet housing demand, and the challenges they face in this role. It calls on the government or future government to support council housing and planning departments with adequate grant funding, resources, greater powers and flexibilities to enable them to resume their role as major providers of housing. This will help councils become key players in bringing forward housing supply to meet growing housing demand, and that decent and affordable homes are available for those who need it. We also call for improvements to the land and planning system to support councils in their provider role.