Tory Local Government Leader Asks Lords To Block Housing Reforms

The Conservative leader in local government is urging peers to vote against the government on a number of key amendments to the housing bill amid fears it could force more people into homelessness. Cllr David Hodge – leader of the Tories at the Local Government Association (LGA) – warns that elements of the bill being debated in the Lords could have the “unintended consequence of increasing homelessness and pushing more families into the more expensive private rented sector”. Hodge has teamed up with his Labour and Liberal Democrat counterparts to ask members of the House of Lords to try to block legislation that would force councils to sell their most expensive properties in order to fund the government’s Right to Buy policy. Read more on the Guardian website.