I had missed this powerful housing anthology. Certainly, going on early morning inspections of rogue Newham Private Sector landlords brought home this return of squalor.
Hat tip https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/book-re…Read more…
Why voluntary right to buy for Housing Associations is nuts
So scare government grant is being used to effectively give an existing social tenant a home which will then be lost for ever from social housing instead of being used to help build another social home? This is nuts in a housing crisis.
Hat tip Red Br…Read more…
Red Brick – “The Help to Buy Gravy Train” by Steve Hilditch
(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…
“Shifting Housing’s Overton Window”
Another great article by stevehilditch on Redbrick (even though I had to Google “Overton Window”)
“It’s a sign of a remarkable comeback for social housing that the new CIH report ‘Rethinking Social Housing’ contains few surprises. Only 3 years ag…Read more…
“Why I care so much about housing associations: they will be critical to delivering Jeremy Corbyn’s housebuilding target”
Today John Healey MP announced a welcome commitment to build a million homes if a Labour Government is elected on June 8.
We have to bang the Labour drum on safe, secure, decent and affordable housing for all.
Steve Hilditch on “Redbrick” is really i…Read more…
“One article does not wipe the slate clean”
A really important and interesting article by Steve Hilditch on the Labour Housing Group website “Red Brick” about the undermining of social housing during the last decade. The CEO of Notting Hill is not the only one and actually not the worse by…Read more…
Saturday Sectarian: Green Lies & the Green Housing vacuum
I have just enjoyed reading two very different posts on the Green Party and their policies.
The first was from the never shy nor retiring Kitty Jones on
“You’d have to be Green to believe the Green Party: two more lies exposed”.
While the other post by Steve Hilditch “The grass isn’t any greener…Read more…