Swindon’s first council estate – The Addison Act and the building of Pinehurst

Pinehurst was Swindon’s first council housing estate. Building started under the 1919 Housing and Planning Act introduced by Liberal … More

Labour must listen to its members and focus its policy on council housing

By Martin Wicks This article was published in Inside Housing Labour’s housing policy does not put enough on emphasis on … More

Labour’s plans to tackle the housing crisis will fail unless they are bold enough to back councils with guaranteed grant, … More

Russell Holland’s extraordinary outburst reported in the Advertiser ( £400k for no houses ‘money down the drain’) shows his prejudice … More

“The money we propose to spend on housing is an insurance against Bolshevism and revolution” Introduction The year 2019 marks … More

This is an article published in Labour Briefing The contradiction between Labour’s official housing policies and the more radical aspirations … More

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 should introduce a duty on councils to build council housing in the framework of the housing revenue account Labour’s … More

Crisis of housing affordability Both David Renard the Council Leader and MP Robert Buckland highlighted from the Centre for Cities … More

This is an article published on the Labour Briefing website Raising the ‘borrowing cap’ is not a solution to … More