Parliament’s attack on landlords doesn’t go far enough
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (HCLG) has suggested today that landlords found repeatedly exploiting vulnerable tenants should face having their properties confiscated. But for...
View ArticleIDS is doubly wrong on housing benefit and rent inflation
IDS’s parliamentary gaffe on 9 November, when he attributed data downloaded from a property market website to the Office of National Statistics, has rightly attracted a lot of attention. But what about...
View ArticleTaking control of the economic debate: Why Labour should commit to a mass...
Matthew Whittley is a recent graduate, Labour party member and works as a researcher for a Midlands-based housing association Despite Osborne failing on every conceivable measure of economic...
View ArticleConfusion reigns over government rent policy for social housing
Ed Turner is lecturer in politics at the Aston Centre for Europe, deputy Leader of Oxford City Council, and leads on planning for the LGA Labour Group. The views expressed are his own The chancellor’s...
View ArticleMiliband is offering ‘generation rent’ a radical and attractive alternative
For the increasing number of people forced to hand over large sums of money in rent, Miliband is offering a genuinely radical alternative, writes James Bloodworth Ed Miliband will today announce plans...
View ArticleHouse prices in London are now 10 times the average salary
A recent but little-noticed interim report by the London Housing Commission, published by the IPPR, offers a fresh reminder of the dire state of housing in London at the start of 2016. What we call...
View Article‘Pay to stay’ will force working families from their homes
The government’s erosion of social housing, turning it into residualised, American-style welfare housing, will be given a further boost with the so-called ‘pay to stay’ scheme. ‘Pay to stay’, set to...
View ArticleRight-to-Buy is gutting social housing: replacement building fell a quarter...
Privatisation of the nation’s housing system remains a key government priority, despite the change in Prime Minister post-Brexit. The main driver continues to be the ‘reinvigorated’ Right to Buy...
View ArticleHere’s how the government can prevent a flood of evictions in London
Sem Moema is the Labour Party London Assembly Member for North East since 2021. As we stand on the cusp of a possible third wave of the pandemic, the evictions ban has come to an abrupt end. We know...
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