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Housing | TessaCoombes

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Skip to primary content. The UK is in the grips of a housing crisis. Few could deny that we are not building enough homes, but so far there seems little consensus about how we solve it! The figures are there for all to see – we build only around 40% of the homes needed every year, thereby continuing to make the problem worse year on year. 8211; blogs on housing and lots of other stuff. 8211; blog from the Guardian. 8211; blog on politics and social housing. 8211; social housing blog. 18/09/2013 at 4:06 pm.

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The 101st day | Jules Birch

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A bit about politics, quite a bit about social policy, a lot about housing. Larr; Sold out. August 16, 2015. The Conservatives must be pinching themselves after 100 days in government. What can possibly go wrong? But could the Conservatives turn out to be most immediately vulnerable where they seem strongest: on the ground they’ve staked out since the election to be ‘the real party of working people’? As Cameron put it in an article for the Telegraph. Yet in the second half of his Today programme. Interv...

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Housebuilding | Jules Birch

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A bit about politics, quite a bit about social policy, a lot about housing. The ides of November. October 31, 2016. Originally posted on October 31 on my blog for Inside Housing. The last four months have seemed to offer a series of new possibilities for housing from Theresa May’s new government. From the prime minister’s rhetoric about ‘ a country that works for everyone. A week today sees the start of the reduction in the overall household benefit cap from 26,000 to 23,000 in London and 20,000 elsewhere.

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Labour must nail the lies about the deficit and debt | Red Brick

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The place for progressive housing policy debate. Talking aspiration →. Labour must nail the lies about the deficit and debt. May 14, 2015. One of the first questions that all the Labour leadership contenders have been asked by journalists – it’s almost like it is co-ordinated was “. Did Labour spend too much before the 2010 Election? The journalists know it puts the candidates on the spot because it was an audience question (probably from a planted Tory) during the. Has shown before on. That Total Manage...

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julesbirch | Jules Birch

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A bit about politics, quite a bit about social policy, a lot about housing. November 1, 2016. Originally published on November 1 on my blog for Inside Housing. You might think a policy that threatens more than 300,000 children with destitution and homelessness would be attracting more attention. This month that I blogged about yesterday. But only now is it getting much attention in the national media. That’s partly thanks to new analysis by the Chartered Institute of Housing. The ides of November. But ev...

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Channel 4 News | Jules Birch

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A bit about politics, quite a bit about social policy, a lot about housing. The fall guys – Part Two. July 28, 2015. Originally posted on July 28 on Inside Edge 2. My blog for Inside Housing. So does it really cost housing associations 150,000 to build what housebuilders can deliver for 90,000? The first part of this blog. Examined last week’s Channel 4 News report. This second part of the blog is devoted to what I think was the most serious charge:. Read the rest of this entry ». July 28, 2015. On the n...

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Tenants have their say | Red Brick

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The place for progressive housing policy debate. Louise Casey, Jeremy Kyle and the zombie statistic. Collapse in housebuilding pulls economy into recession – again →. Tenants have their say. July 22, 2012. The National Tenant Organisations have embarked on an interesting exercise to test tenant opinion. And presumably not only do that once but repeat the exercise at regular intervals? Another question asked in the NTOs survey relates to the real reasons behind proposals such as pay-to-stay and the enhanc...

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Do we have to sell off high-value council houses? | Red Brick

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The place for progressive housing policy debate. Housing will dominate the London Labour mayoral selection race →. Do we have to sell off high-value council houses? May 31, 2015. Yet again we have the Policy Exchange to thank for a policy, fully incorporated into the Conservative Party Manifesto, aimed at destroying social housing. But with the plan to sell off high-value council houses they have plunged below even their low standards. What, if anything, can councils do about it? As Colin Wiles points out.

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London LHG Housing Hustings: Tackling the Big Issues | Red Brick

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The place for progressive housing policy debate. London mayor: the housing policies of Christian Wolmar. Osborne unveils the National Living Nightmare →. London LHG Housing Hustings: Tackling the Big Issues. July 3, 2015. A packed audience at the University of Westminster last night heard a passionate and knowledgeable debate about housing in the capital between all six potential Labour mayoral candidates. Gareth Thomas addresses the packed Housing Hustings. Diane Abbott talks to the media as she arrives.