Working households are to be given greater priority at a London authority after the new leader declared he was launching a reform of housing. Ravi Govindia, leader of Wandsworth Council, said he wanted to create a greater mix in the borough’s estates and that council housing should be ‘aspirational’ not ‘a last resort’. Wandsworth Council said that less than one in three council homes are going to people in employment. Under the plans, unemployed households would be offered homes in the private rented market and other housing providers while the authority’s housing stock would be offered to working households. The council said this could be achieved with the proposed change in legislation for providing housing for homeless applicants. If enacted, councils will no longer have to provide homeless applicants, who it argues are often unemployed, who refuse a suitable offer of private rented housing with temporary accommodation and then social housing. Read more on Inside Housing.
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