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# Group backs calls for council to take action on lack of affordable rental homes
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/group-backs-calls-for-council-to-take-action-on-lack-of-affordable-rental-homes/
- Published: 2024-02-27T08:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-26T08:42:38.000Z
- Description: A community group has backed calls for more action on the lack of affordable rental homes.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Community, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:58, News

A community group has backed calls for more action on the lack of affordable rental homes.

Cllr Russ Bragger has [put forward a motion on the issue](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/councillor-calls-for-action-on-shortage-of-genuinely-affordable-homes-for-rent/) and has urged Lichfield District Council to draw up plans for “building and acquiring housing at social rents”.

The topic will be debated at a meeting of the local authority this evening (27th February).

A spokesperson for Beacon Street Area Residents’ Association said they too were keen to see the lack of affordable rental properties addressed.

> “Lichfield is not the only place facing this problem – more action on empty properties and stricter demands on developers is urgently required.  
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> “It is vital that more affordable homes are made available for local residents and their dependents.”  
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> Beacon Street Area Residents’ Association

Cllr Bragger, Labour representative for Stowe ward, told *Lichfield Live* more needed to be done to ensure lower paid residents were not forced out of the area.

> “Everyone agrees Lichfield, Burntwood and the villages have a chronic shortage of social housing for rent, so I don’t understand why the council have not been building and buying them already.  
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> “We have some capital money from housing developers and from historic council house sales in the bank.  
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> “Our lower paid young people have to move out of Lichfield to afford a place to live so it is about time the council stepped up and used the money they have.”  
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> Cllr Russ Bragger, Lichfield District Council