Social Tenants across the city have been served a notice of increases to their social rent which included an unexpected item. A charge for “communal area electricity” has been added to their rents despite the charge never having been applied to some previously.
On Thursday the 22nd of February, the Housing Ombudsman released a Press Statement and published an article on their website, detailing their findings of 6 failings by Birmingham City Council which led to the Council as a landlord paying tenants compensation.
Last night, Birmingham Labour published their budget proposal ahead of the March 5th full council meeting where councillors decide if they will vote for or against Labour’s budget.
Birmingham Local Conservatives have submitted a motion to January’s full council meeting at Birmingham City Council calling for the dates of the planned public inquiry into the Council’s equal pay crisis to be formally set as beginning no later than September ’24, reporting by December ’25.
Birmingham Labour have admitted it will take at least 8 years before council tenants in the city have decent homes to live in, due to the chronic underinvestment by Labour as their landlord.