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Speaking at Trades Council Rally Against Cuts
This afternoon I was invited by Redbridge Trades Council to speak at their rally outside the Town Hall in Ilford against public service cuts & in support of postal workers.
As Chair of London UNISON Labour Link (our union Labour Party supporting p…Read more…
Swindon as dormitory town?
According to government statistics not a single ‘social rent’ home was added to Swindon’s housing stock over the last five … MoreRead more…
LABOUR’S HOUSING POLICIES – A DOORSTEP GUIDE
LHG has produced a Guide to Labour’s housing policies, summarising the key policies in the 2019 Manifesto to talk about on the doorstep.Housing is at the top of the manifesto conversation in the media. Make sure you know what we are saying we…Read more…
Why was this my most liked Facebook Photo in 2015?
Any ideas other than the lovely smile of UNISON Housing policy expert Sylvia Jones? Read more…
Labour vows to “put bad landlords out of business”
Fantastic news. Hat tip Sienna Rodgers Labour List
“Labour has vowed to “put bad landlords out of business” with fresh plans for housing that will see private sector renters offered new rights and a national ‘property MOT’ introduced.Announci…Read more…
Labour Party Manifesto 2019: Housing
“Everyone has the right to a decent, secure home. In 1945, Labour promised to ‘proceed with a housing programme with the maximum practical speed until every family in this island has a good standard of accommodation’.
In 2019, we renew that pledg…Read more…
The government increases the cost of ‘borrowing to build’
When local authorities build council housing, even if they receive central government grant, they borrow from the government’s own Public … MoreRead more…
My Labour Movement Week – 28 October to 3 November 2019
I thought that I will do a weekend summary of the stuff I have been doing during the past week but have not posted upon.
So this week we had a visit to to Lyn Brown MP and staff to discuss housing policy; there was an important visit to Newham by…Read more…
Open letter: Put radical housing policies in Labour’s manifesto
Below is the open letter by Labour Campaign for Council Housing in full.To Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and John Healey,We the undersigned welcome the unanimous support of Labour conference for:Building 100,000 social rented council homes a year;…Read more…
Newham Fabians London Labour Policy Conference
This photo college is from yesterday’s all day event in the Old Town Hall in Stratford. This the Fabians at their very best. Great speakers (apart from me – obviously), fair but effective Chairs of panels and genuine questions and real debate about the…Read more…
Housing Commission shows how to tackle the housing emergency
There is a real housing emergency in many parts of Scotland, and we need the Government to recognise the scale of the problem and take radical action.
I was in the Scottish Parliament today at the…Read more…
Newham Housing Special on Community Radio “Revive FM 94.0”
This afternoon I was interviewed live on “Revive FM 94.0” by my radio host colleague, Shaban Mohammed & community activist, Armond Dean on Newham Council Housing Policies.
It was a really good discussion on the housing crisis in Newham and what we…Read more…
Time to reform eviction law: scrap section 21
If you want to see a more stable rental system, and less homelessness, make sure you have your say in the government’s consultation, which closes on 12 October.
The article Time to reform eviction…Read more…
Labour Party Conference 2019: Tuesday #Lab19 (Twitter)
We will only be able to keep global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels if we effect unprecedented transitions in all aspects of society, including energy, land and ecosystems, urban and infrastructure as well as industry’
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Newham Fabians on local Housing
This evening I came back from attending the Ryanair AGM in Dublin (will post further on this) to go and attend the meeting of Newham Fabians and speak on my role as the Cabinet lead on housing.
More people arrived after the start and it was good to ha…Read more…
Newham Council Housing Liaison Team
For the first time in many years Newham Council tenants and leaseholders now have named officers for all our estates and properties in the borough.
This is a brand new team and I have been on a number of “walkabouts” and resident meetings with them. T…Read more…
Archbishop of Canterbury’s “Housing Crisis” Commission visits Newham
This afternoon I met members of the Archbishop of Canterbury Housing Commission at a building site in Newham where the Council is to build new high quality homes at truly affordable rents. Officers and contractors explained what we are doing with the s…Read more…
Newham Council working with TELCO Citizens on the Housing Crisis
Picture from Tuesday with Newham TELCO Citizens. I first worked with TELCO in the 1990s when my trade union branch, UNISON Tower Hamlets was affiliated and I can remember going on demos and lobbies with them over the London Living wage.
Their twitter …Read more…
To the last 100 years of Council Housing in Newham and the next 100
Last Thursday evening I came back from holiday and went to the 3rd Newham Council Tenants and Leaseholders forum in East Ham Town Hall for Plaistow and Green Street residents.
There was around 50 residents present. Councillor Shaban Mohammed was the l…Read more…