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This is a model housing motion from London Labour Housing Group. It makes perfect sense to me. I have submitted to West Ham GC as a UNISON delegate.
“This conference notes:
1.That the number of households in London who rent from private la…Read more…
Completely agree. Tenants have no collective voice, little power and very mixed protection. While the public sector is not at all perfect the private sector needs complete fundamental reform. “Sweeping new powers must be given to social tena…Read more…
This article in today’s Daily Telegraph shows that the Tories since 2010 will have built the fewest homes since the war.
“new-build housing completions in England between 2010 and 2019 are set to be approximately 130,000 per year. That is w…Read more…
Apologies to friends, colleagues and family who have sent me Christmas cards and have not received any back.
I have made a donation instead. This year to the Housing and Homeless Charity Shelter. https://england.shelter.org.uk/donate
My first ro…Read more…
Hat tip Room 151 – Sometimes the old ones are the best
“Chris Buss suggests four ways to stimulate the building of council housing.
(photo East Ham, Newham)
Earlier in the year the government issued a Green Paper on social housing; since then th…Read more…
“Newham Council’s housing stock will be improved as part of a £120m investment programme, to drive up standards for residents and ensure our council homes are safe and well maintained.
The commitment was set out as part of the Housing Revenue Account …Read more…
This is an article published in Labour Briefing The contradiction between Labour’s official housing policies and the more radical aspirations … MoreRead more…
Planned strike action at a London housing association has been called off after the association’s management agreed to honour a pay deal they had previously failed to implement.
The post Hackney…Read more…
Another excellent housing “myth buster” by Red Brick (Website of the Labour Housing Group) “home ownership is now easily the most subsidised tenure, much more so than social housing, with private renting receiving the least help”.
“It often seems that…Read more…
Picture collage from recent visits, talks and walkabouts I have been on as Newham Housing lead with local residents, Council Officers and local Councillors.
While visiting our housing estates and meeting residents I have found lots of things that we n…Read more…
This is from a hard hitting report by the Child Poverty Action Group. 37% of children in London (700,000 kids) live in poverty. It is projected to rise 2019-2021 to 41.5%. What a shameful statistic for one of the richest cities in the world. 2/3rds of …Read more…
Love it. NEWHAM GREAT HOUSING COUNCIL. Way to go
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I was also simply appalled to visit such a dirty, infested, unsafe and unlicensed house and to hear from tenants about the threats made against them. I felt that I was back in Victorian East London and not the 21st Century. Sickening.
Hat tip Ne…Read more…
This is my message to UNISON members of the Social Housing Pension Scheme, who will no doubt be worried about their families pension futures.
Inside Housing magazine has reported on this completely unwarranted attack on the Social Housing Pensio…Read more…
UNISON is encouraging members to respond to the government’s consultation on social housing in England. A government green paper promises “a new deal for social housing” to make sure that…Read more…
I am now back in Newham from a very much “full on” Party conference in Liverpool. I think I attended 9 different fringes on housing, the conference housing debates and learnt from all the speeches and also from all the wide ranging Q&A sessions.
Will be there.
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(Nearly home after a fascinating meeting of London @LabourHousing policy Some great ideas and presentations ( I was late) on Council housing new build, relationship with Housing Associations, Community Land Trusts. Chaired by #GLA #Housing lead @tomcop…Read more…
Last week I went to this summit in South Wales on investment in the Local Government Pension Scheme. There was around 250 Councillors and Council pension staff from all over the country.
I am particularly interested in the latest ideas on Risk, Asset …Read more…
Owning a home has become virtually impossible for many public sector workers across Britain, according to research published today (Sunday)
The article Home ownership now little more than a pipe…Read more…