CWU Youth Housing Campaign

 

CWU Youth Housing Campaign

 

Those of you who attended CWU Annual Conference this year and visited the Youth Stand will have seen the publicity material for CWU Youth’s housing campaign which pledges to pursue:

 

• Increasing investment in genuinely affordable housing
• Affordable housing for families and workers on low income
• Bringing down the costs of renting
• Increase security and quality of tenancy
• Lifting the restrictions on local government preventing council house building and working with other social landlords to increase the stock of affordable housing available
• Maintain existing social/council housing stock by limiting the right to buy

 

Part of this campaign is to gauge the housing situation in reality and we have re-launched a survey that originally took place in 2012.  This survey will be ongoing throughout the campaign. Results will be issued on a quarterly basis and will inform the basis of future campaigning that will take place.

 

Branches are therefore asked to promote the following:

 

• www.Unscrupulouslandlords.com – a dedicated campaign page where we will publish results and findings from the survey and where you will find real-life experiences from those who are at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords and bad practices.
• Encourage as many people as possible to complete the survey – the link can be found on www.unscrupulouslandlords.com or directly by clicking here
• If the branch is on social media please be on the lookout for posts and tweets and subsequently share/retweet.

 

This is an important survey and will hopefully add to the debate concerning affordable housing and the need for regulation in the private rental sector.

 

Any queries on this LTB should be directed to my office at CWU headquarters.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Simon Sapper

Assistant Secretary

COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION

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