Timothy Eden, candidate for Holywell

We all want where we live to feel like home, to feel safe and secure. That’s why the Greens are making better, affordable housing a top priority.

Oxford has the least affordable housing in the UK. Costs in other parts of the County are also rising inexorably.

The housing crisis is affecting everyone; tenants are being ripped off by dodgy landlords, homelessness is on the increase and prospective owners are being priced out of the area. At the same time, funding for those in housing need is being cut.

Meanwhile, the super rich are speculating on housing and profiteering at our expense.

Many also suffer in cold and mouldy properties facing rising energy bills and soaring rents.

Greens will:

• Abolish the cruel and unfair bedroom tax
• Building 500,000 new Council homes
• Cap rents and introduce longer tenancies to provide greater protection for renters
• An end to £7bn of tax breaks for landlords
• Better insulated, energy efficient homes

This is a call for candidates to stand for the Green Party at the 2020 elections to councils in Oxfordshire.

We need more Green councillors in Oxfordshire. Could you follow in the footsteps of our Green Party councillors in Oxford, and stand for election? You could improve the quality of our councils by representing the people and views that the governing parties ignore.

Act now

If you are at all interested in standing as a candidate, or helping organise a campaign for a candidate, please complete the form below, and the Elections Committee will get back to you with more details.

If you want any more information on what is involved in standing as candidate, please contact the Elections Co-ordinator, David Newman.