People Before Profit will:
· Freeze rents, introduce strict rent controls, ban on no fault evictions, give tenants a right to apply for a rent reduction if it accounts for more than 25% of their income.
· Use public land to build social and affordable homes.
· Abolish the income threshold limits to make public housing available to more people on a broad range of incomes with rents set at a percentage of take-home pay.
· Provide for an affordable purchase scheme within the public housing system where the unit can only be sold back to the local authority or public housing body from which it was purchased.
· Create and fund a state building company to retrofit and refurbish all public homes so that they meet new energy efficiency standards – create a system of training and recruitment delivered through the state building company and under local authority or public housing bodies.
· Establish greater controls in the building industry including building standards, rights for construction workers and certification.
· Ban vulture funds from purchasing multiple homes.
· Establish and maintain registers of vacant and /or derelict sites and unused dwellings and give powers to local authorities and public housing bodies to enforce penalties and compulsory purchase orders.