Labour’s plans to tackle the housing crisis will fail unless they are bold enough to back councils with guaranteed grant, … More
Category: Council Housing
Prejudice against council housing
Russell Holland’s extraordinary outburst reported in the Advertiser ( £400k for no houses ‘money down the drain’) shows his prejudice … More
The centenary of the “Addison Act”
“The money we propose to spend on housing is an insurance against Bolshevism and revolution” Introduction The year 2019 marks … More
Radicalising Labour’s housing policy
This is an article published in Labour Briefing The contradiction between Labour’s official housing policies and the more radical aspirations … More
Labour needs to be pressed to put council housing at the top of its priorities list
MARTIN WICKS reflects on Labour’s housing policy in the wake of the party’s conference in Liverpool THE contradiction between Labour’s … More
Labour’s Housing Green paper – Part 2
Labour should introduce a duty on councils to build council housing in the framework of the housing revenue account Labour’s … More
Swindon: the real picture – Part 2
Crisis of housing affordability Both David Renard the Council Leader and MP Robert Buckland highlighted from the Centre for Cities … More
Councils need government grant to fund large scale council house building programme
This is an article published on the Labour Briefing website Raising the ‘borrowing cap’ is not a solution to … More
“Tenants pay for housing fiascos, from post-Grenfell bills to ‘self-financing’ “
This was a letter published in the Guardian. The suggestion that lifting the borrowing cap will enable councils to build … More
“A radical programme of action”
This is an article published in the Morning Star on October 10th 2017 Jeremy Corbyn’s conference announcement that Labour would … More
Martin Wicks 