Agenda

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Motion: Housing Regulation and Leicester Housing Issues

Proposed by Councillor Haq to move that:

This council notes the following

The judgement by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) of Leicester City Council's Housing Department, identifying serious failings and the need to make significant improvements.

The judgment of Maladministration by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman in the case of Ms X.

The refusal by Leicester City Council to pay Ms X a symbolic payment of £1300 for distress and £150 for every month Ms X experienced this distress.

The failure of Leicester City Council to deliver Hospital Close for rent which it purchased over 4 years ago.

The decision by Leicester City Council to sell multiple small sites and properties, including a number on existing city estates, which could have been used to build new houses to rent for the people of Leicester.

The move by the council instead to house people in unsuitable properties well below National Designated Space Standards.

This council resolves

That due to multiple failures, wasted opportunities, maladministration and the refusal to recognise these failings and the refusal to compensate for that maladministration; that this council has no confidence in the Leadership of Leicester City Council's Housing Department. If this is  continued we will not see any improvement in the situation and  it will continue the decline in the housing situation in the city.