The Liberal Democrats have promised to invest in council housing and stop the government’s policy of encouraging tenants to transfer their homes to housing associations. They also plan to give residents an opportunity to prevent the, much criticised, demolition of homes in the north. The party’s housing policy paper said that the Lib Dems would give tenants more of a say in the running of their homes and would increase investment in council run homes if tenants preferred to keep them under municipal control. The policy paper said: “Many tenants prefer to keep the council as landlord, but have been bribed into stock transfer because money for improving homes is not available without it.