social housing

Healey urges Iain Duncan Smith to champion new housing

Former Labour Minister for Housing, John Healey, has written an open letter to Iain Duncan Smith, urging him to “become the loud Tory voice for housing”. Healey argues that to enable people to move into work, Iain Duncan Smith must champion new housing as part of his policies.

Iain Duncan Smith announces proposals to make unemployed more mobile

Iain Duncan Smith the Work and Pensions Secretary, has outlinedproposals to make the workforce “more mobile” in the Sunday Telegraph. He has revealedthat ministers were drawing up plans to encourage jobless people living in council houses,to move from areas of high unemployment to areas where more jobs are available.