The stigmatisation of council tenants has become commonplace, aided by a government determined to erode a form of tenure that, only a generation ago, housed a third of our population. This prejudice obscures what should be a rational and objective debate about housing policy, at a time when the issue has rarely been as important. For current information, see additional information. For current information, see further guidance.

The government’s one-track, neo-liberal approach was doomed before the financial crash – now it is in tatters.

We urgently need an alternative and have an historic opportunity to rediscover the benefits of publicly owned housing.