And peers have another day at it.

From ending council houses for life to selling off expensive social housing to subsidise home-buyers, the Housing and Planning Bill is the Government’s answer to the housing crisis.

But it has critics. And with an “anti-Tory” Labour-Lib Dem majority in the House of Lords, plus disgruntled Tory peers, the Bill is being slowly demolished.

MPs may ignore the will of the Lords, but there has already been a series of concessions. Here are 16 defeats and U-turns it’s suffering from.

1. The Treasury has been blocked from keeping the proceeds of the forced sale of high-value council houses – to fund Right-to-But discounts – without parliamentary approval.

2. A flagship scheme to hand well-off first-time buyers a taxpayer-funded 20% discount on a Starter Home has been moderated.

3. English councils can decide how many starter homes are built-in their area.

4. Peers voted in support of a Labour-led amendment to give local councils the discretion over whether to implement “pay to stay”, a market rate charge for better-off tenants.

5. Peers to back an amendment to lower the “pay to stay” taper rate from 20p to 10p in every pound, so lower-paid families would not be hit as hard.

6. The Lords voted 266 to 175 to increase the “pay to stay” threshold by £10,000.

7. Wide open “planning permission in principle” powers are to be limited to housing development.

8. Parish councils and local forums right to appeal against developments they think go against a “local plan”.

9. The Government will consider a proposal to ensure a one-for-one – and like-for-like – replacement of council homes sold under the forced sale.

10. The Government is to look at backing down on the forced sale of council homes in national parks and areas of national beauty.

11. Ministers have accepted a proposal to make it harder for landlords to evict vulnerable people that have abandoned their homes.

12. The Government has been forced to consider giving councils discretion to exclude building homes in rural areas.

13. Ministers backed down on replacing lifelong secure tenancies with contracts lasting up to five years, and agreed to extend maximum to 10 years.

14. Ministers will insist letting agents have to put money in to a Client Money Protection account to stop “rogues” running off with deposit.

15. Ministers agreed to review planning laws relating to basement developments amid fears councils cannot control the growth of “subterranean development”.

16. The Government will look again at private landlords being able to reclaim properties when the become vacant after concern that it was open to being used as a “back-door” way to evict tenants.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/housing-bill-defeats-u-turns_uk_571a0368e4b077f671e7bb8e