Council tenants in Birmingham look likely to benefit from the coming self-financing deal for local authority landlords where it matters – in the wallet. The city council is proposing to freeze rents this year and hold them 2011 levels.
Members of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee travelled to Birmingham to learn more about the biggest new council house development programme in the UK.
Housing fraudsters will be tracked down and called to account, says Cllr John Lines, Birmingham’s Cabinet Member for Housing. The warning comes on the back of the Council’s new anti-fraud campaign – Blow the Whistle on Housing Cheats which launched today.
A Moseley woman who insisted that she was unaware that she owned a property has been sentenced to 24 weeks in prison for 13 offences relating to housing benefit fraud.
Birmingham City Council’s Housing department has won two national award for its Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT) programme at the Regeneration and Renewal Awards.
Birmingham City Council is bucking the downward trend in the housing market with new housing schemes which are already selling ‘off plan’, following the success of another sales programme in the city.
