{"id":19995,"date":"2018-08-28T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19995"},"modified":"2018-08-27T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T16:28:39","slug":"mhclg-social-housing-green-paper-comments-sought-by-6-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19995","title":{"rendered":"MHCLG Social Housing Green Paper: comments sought by 6 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MCHLG_publication280818.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19996\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MCHLG_publication280818.png\" alt=\"publication cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a>England\u2019s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has begun consultation on a social housing green paper (with comments on the five core themes sought 6 November 2018).<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>MHCLG writes:<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0social housing green paper\u2026 aims to rebalance the relationship between residents and landlords, tackle stigma and ensure that social housing can be both a stable base that supports people when they need it and support social mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Residents across the country were asked for their views on social housing; almost 1,000 tenants shared their views with ministers at 14 events across the country, with over 7,000 submitting their opinions, issues and concerns online.\u00a0 The consultation launched today, with this green paper, gives everyone the opportunity to submit views on proposals for the future of social housing and will run until 6 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The green paper sets out 5 core themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tackling stigma and celebrating thriving communities<\/li>\n<li>Expanding supply and supporting home ownership<\/li>\n<li>Effective resolution of complaints<\/li>\n<li>Empowering residents and strengthening the regulator<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring homes are safe and decent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Secretary of State for Communities, Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, said:\u00a0 Providing quality and fair social housing is a priority for this government.\u00a0 Our green paper offers a landmark opportunity for major reform to improve fairness, quality and safety to residents living in social housing across the country.\u00a0 Regardless of whether you own your home or rent in the social sector, residents deserve security, dignity and the opportunities to build a better life.\u00a0 With 4 million households living in social housing and this projected to rise annually, it\u2019s crucial that we tackle the issues facing both residents and landlords in social housing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/social-housing-green-paper-a-new-deal-for-social-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planningportal.co.uk\/news\/article\/580\/planning_news_-_23_august_2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critique of the paper<\/a> by the <em>Planner Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For background see <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHBC newsblogs on housing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has begun consultation on a social housing green paper (with comments on the five core themes sought 6 November 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19997,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions\/19997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}