In 2002, the Labour Government renewed its commitment to making all social housing 'decent' by 2010. This involves improving the funding available for councils in order to invest more in local communities, ensuring better rights for tenants, and making housing more affordable for all.

Sadiq believes everyone has a right to a good standard of housing. Sadiq's Warm Front Events were set up in order to provide the local Tooting community with the neccesary information and advice in order to make sure this is guaranteed. Organisations that have worked with Sadiq as part of Warm Front Events include the:

• Community Safety Department from Wandsworth Council - To advise on saving energy and cutting energy bills the South West London
• Energy Advice Centre - To advise on services in the community
• Age Concern
• The Pension Service
• The Home Improvement Agency
• TaxHelp for older People
• Citizens Advice Bureaux
• The Furzedown Project
• The Bengali Welfare Association.

Sadiq also works closely with a group called Eage Partnership (a government appointed agency) who have helped over 600 households in Tooting combat fuel poverty by providing grants to install heating and insulation measures in their homes. To read more about this work please click here.

Sadiq is also aware of many of the problems that private tenants face, particularly with concern to deposit issues and unfair treatment by landlords. To find out what action the Government is taking on these matters please click here.

Below is a video of Sadiq at The Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield where he grew up. Sadiq discusses how the state of local housing has changed under Labour.

Working with local Labour Campaign Teams, Sadiq makes sure that Wandsworth Council is meeting its responsibility to maintaing public housing. In 2008, Furzedown’s Labour Campaign Team discovered that council-owned blocks on Aldrington Road were in a poor state of neglect (for more information on this case click here). Sadiq makes sure that the community hears about these issues.

Having grown up in Tooting, Sadiq feels strongly that standards of housing have a direct effect on community cohesion. That's why he strongly opposed the Springfield Hospital development because he believed such a project would seriously disrupt local neighbourhoods, public transport and the environment. Sadiq's Springfield Campaign successfully blocked planning permission to the project. To find out more please click here.

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• Sadiq has been working in Westminster to increase the rights of private tenants and has been working with the Government to develop new plans to protect their rights. To read more about these plans click here.