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Morning Briefing: Sadiq Khan calls for more devolved powers

News30.08.1910.30 AM by Jack Simpson

Sadiq Khan calls for more powers from Westminster, food bank demand spikes over summer holidays, and all your other major housing stories of the day

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Sadiq Khan calls for more powers from Westminster, food bank demand spikes over summer holidays and all your other major housing stories of the day in today’s @insidehousing Morning Briefing #ukhousing

The mayor of London has renewed calls for the government to devolve more powers from Westminster to City Hall, City AM reports today.

The London paper was trailing a report that Mr Khan will release today which will call for “wholesale reform” of council tax and business rates so revenues from these can be spent by authorities on public services, education and housing.

In the report titled London and the UK – a declaration for interdependence, the mayor argues that public spending per head in London is not particularly high compared with the rest of the UK and that average household incomes are no higher once the cost of housing is considered.

Eddie Curzon, regional director – London and South at CBI, said that further devolution to the capital would enable London to tackle some of its most pressing issues, including access to affordable homes.

The Guardian runs a piece looking at the increase in the use of food banks across the country during the summer holidays as demand has surged from families and their children.

The paper spoke to a number of food bank distribution centres across the UK, which said they were running critically low on supplies due to the spike in demand and lack of donations.

Tricia Ryder, distribution centre manager at Leeds North and West food bank, said: “We’re running critically low on supplies. The summer months are always the time when we get the least donations, but each summer we’re getting more and more attendants.”

The report said that while national figures for the number of parcels have not been calculated, many food banks have reported an increase.

Manchester City Council has laid out proposals to grow the number of homes it aims to build by 2025 from 5,000 to 6,400, Place North West writes.

The new figure came in a report that will be submitted to the council’s economic scrutiny committee and is in response to the increasing number of people on Manchester’s housing register, which currently has 15,000 households, 5,000 of which are classified as ‘in housing need’.

Brighton-based local paper The Argus focuses on residents in Brighton and Hove that have criticised the council for not keeping promises to clean up the city and tackle the homeless crisis.

In May, Nancy Platts, Labour leader of Brighton & Hove City Council, made pledges in the wake of the party’s success during the local elections that the council would tackle the issue of homelessness in the city.

However, residents have expressed concern at the lack of progress, with most bemoaning the price of housing in the city and its record so far in improving the homelessness problem on the streets.

On social media

The housing secretary promotes a new shared ownership model:

And a storyline on the housing crisis has found its way onto the UK’s longest-running radio soap:

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