Current planning law states that if a developer will make less than 20% profit on a new development, they can ignore a council's regulations about building affordable and social housing. Leaked documents from several developers have shown that the maths they use to work out their profit margins are purposefully misleading, allowing them to claim they will make less than 20% profit on a development by undervaluing the prices of the houses they will sell and over-costing the labour. To combat this Islington, Greenwich, Lambeth and Bristol councils have introduced a policy that forces developers "viability assessments" to be made public. By bringing these dodgy maths into the public domain, Councils, campaigning groups and individuals will be able to hold developers to account and force them to use more honest maths. Resulting in more affordable and social housing for Camden.

It is abhorrent that in a country as wealthy as ours, a man has been allowed to die on the streets of Glasgow because he had nowhere to go. Glasgow City Council website states that: “As a minimum, the council will arrange for you to receive: Advice and Information Temporary Accommodation” We demand that Glasgow City Council acts immediately to fulfil it's duty to the people of Glasgow. Everyone who presents themselves at a Council facility as homeless, should immediately be provided with somewhere safe and warm to stay, until such times as they are able to find permanent accommodation. Furthermore, we demand an end to the policy of abandoning our friends who are deemed to have made themselves intentionally homeless. This unfairly punishes people unfamiliar with the law or who are victims of bullying by rogue landlords.

People who live in social housing are already paying high tenancy fees, this will add more anxiety to the very ones who need social housing. Paying nearly £100 for a 3 bed house is putting the roofs over the heads of children at risk. The Government will pay more for housing benefit thus meaning the tax payer will be also footing the bill. The Riverside Group have intentionally made more than a third of their manual workforce redundant, how do the expect to maintain thousands of properties with less workforce? The tenants are having to pay for remedial works already and are having to wait long hours for a response to urgent works. This is a stealth tax on the very people who need / rely on social housing.

The cut will leave young people in situations of abuse, or being thrown out of their family home, more vulnerable to sleeping rough. Government cuts to social care, youth services, children’s services and advice centres mean that those who become homeless are less likely to get support to help them out of their situation. The estimated number of rough sleepers in England has doubled since 2010. This is a national issue being spearheaded from Bradford which is the youngest city in the country and will be the youngest in Europe by 2020.

To stop families being moved for the profit of landlords!! It is only business for landlords but is a home to tenants, there should be a new scheme to allow private tenanants to buy and the government should be able to allocate another property for that landlord to rent out!!!

The housing allocation policy that accompanies the spare room subsidy has done nothing more than stop families from finding a home or forcing them into accommodation too small for purpose and children and young adults forced to share bedrooms. To add to the misery it forces people to live in the short term and not allowing families to settle into a home

The family home as been in our family for 30++years

This city desperately needs more houses and we, the undersigned, are sick of selfish NIMBYism on the part of people who are more concerned about their view than they are about doing anything that might alleviate the housing crisis. It's about time those of us who us who want to see the crisis solved started trying to make our voices heard too. Also they've got 9,000 signatures for their petition opposing development in Stratford and that winds me right up.

Because it's for the safety of everyone involved. Plus it's dangerous and also crime rate will now rise.

My son is currently serving in the army , his house is damp with mould in the majority of rooms, his youngest son has recently had his second chest infection but is only 1 year old ,the local doctor is convinced its due to the mould spores in his bedroom. Despite numerous complaints nothing seems to be getting fixed. Does someone serving their country really deserve to have to deal with poor housing as well as putting their lives on the line , and worry about their family when they really need to worry about where the next bullet or roadside bomb is coming from. He is not allowed to complain on social media so i'm doing it on his and his sons behalf.

The council should be helping to rehome these people. They shouldn't be moved out of town they should be helped. Our job is to get these people the help they need to better their lives.

As students we are already paying above what we should for university halls. Many students have been treated in an unjust way and not had complaints resolved or listened to. Maintenance issues aren't resolved for long periods of time. Students receive no apology or compensation when things go wrong. The accommodation we expected upon arrival was not what we received due to false advertisement. We are fined for responsibilities that the landlord should take care of whilst not receiving sufficient housing for the price point we pay. It is important to allow students sufficient and affordable housing as well as to operate as a satisfactory landlord. Students struggle to afford living costs and should not be pressured into paying above what they should for the service they receive.