The Unite Community ‘Housing Crisis Roadshow’ reached the seaside town of Ramsgate yesterday, where local people said unaffordable house prices and a shortage of social housing has left them unable…Read more…
Unite Scotland house build call
And from the south east of England to Scotland – Unite is out to defeat the UK’s housing misery crisis. Unite Scotland announced (August 19) it is backing calls for a national strategy to…Read more…
Taking housing fight to south east
Although the housing crisis has hit the entire UK to varying degrees, it has become an entrenched and alarming problem in the South East – earlier this year it was revealed that there is not one…Read more…
How will the new housing act affect you and your family?
UNISON has published a new briefing on the 2016 Housing and Planning Act (England)
The article How will the new housing act affect you and your family? first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
My Nephew Lewis and his Baby Daughter Teagan
Off message but love this picture from today of East Ham born Lewis and his beautiful 2 month daughter, Teagan. Lewis and his partner Felicity, had to go through the drama of childbirth and then soon after moving into their new home in Witham…Read more…
House deposit? Not for renters
Home ownership in England has fallen to its lowest levels for 30 years, while nearly 90 per cent of renters in Britain do not have enough savings to cover even a quarter of the deposit needed to buy…Read more…
‘Dismaying’ jobs threat
The announcement today (August 3) of a possible 64 job losses at the Riverside housing association in Cumbria has been met with dismay by Unite. Riverside said the cause of the threatened job…Read more…
Cathy come home: 50th anniversity tonight on BBC4
“In 1966 the powerful Cathy Come Home shone a light on the desperate housing problems gripping Britain at the time. When the programme first aired, the extent of the crisis shocked the nation – 3 million people were living in slums or stuck in a brutal private renting market. It was a far cry from…Read more…
Cameron’s premiership saw least housebuilding since 1923
“David Cameron had the worst housebuilding record of any Prime Minister since 1923. An average of 123,560 houses were built in England and Wales during each year of his premiership, according to data released by the independent House of Commons library…Read more…
UNISON vows to campaign for social housing
Conference agrees actions against Housing Act
The article UNISON vows to campaign for social housing first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Housing crisis is ‘a national disaster’, conference hears
Local government delegates hear plea for a housing policy which will help people: ‘build, build, build’
The article Housing crisis is ‘a national disaster’, conference hears first…Read more…
Stealing homes and killing communities
These are notes from a briefing and discussion we had at last months Forest Gate North Labour Party branch meeting on the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and it’s consequences. The briefing is based on an Unison report to its NEC. Our branch now tr…Read more…
Axe the Housing Act
Picture is from the Defend Council Housing lobby against the Housing and Planning Bill in the House of Commons earlier this month. A number of MPs, Lords, Tenant representatives, campaigners and trade unions came to speak at it.
I was late due t…Read more…
Strike for fair pay
Members of Unite working at Homes and Communities Association (HCA) are striking for fair pay and proper pay negotiations today (May 19). Unite’s 145 members at two locations began a 24 hour…Read more…
Cameron’s ‘bare cupboard’
The annual Queen’s Speech should ostensibly lay out the government’s forthcoming legislative agenda, but today’s Speech – dominated by meaningless rhetoric and peppered with a shameless rehashing of…Read more…
Housing bill ping-pong
The government is struggling to push through its housing agenda as its Housing Bill enters into a furious game of parliamentary ping-pong between the Commons and the House of Lords. Peers…Read more…
Eve of Poll 4 May 2016 – Getting the Labour Vote out
The day started with some family political scandal via LinkedIn, my lovely sister-in-laws’ current husband, has just defected as a North Wales Councillor (and former Mayor) from Plaid Cymru to the Conservatives. No further comment.
Other than that a b…Read more…
“Stop the Housing Bill” Lobby tomorrow Tuesday 3rd May
I will be at the lobby tomorrow evening after 5pm (Tuesday 3rd May).
From UNISON press release “The Housing and Planning Bill is nearing its conclusion in Parliament, it returns to the Commons on 3 May, when it will be debated by MPs.
This is a cruci…Read more…
Govt’s house of cards
First it was cuts to tax credits, then the raid on disability benefits – and now measures in the Housing Bill are facing defeat. The government’s proposed policies, all taking aim at those who are…Read more…
No more excuses – time to address Scotland’s housing crisis
#STUC16 The STUC will press the incoming Scottish Government to back Shelter Scotland’s campaign for a radical programme to build more affordable and social rent homes. It will also campaign for such a building programme to create directly employed construction jobs and apprenticeships.
Supporting, UNISON’s Mark Ferguson told delegates that it is a national scandal that estimates show thereRead more…