The government increases the cost of ‘borrowing to build’

When local authorities build council housing, even if they receive central government grant, they borrow from the government’s own Public … 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’s Housing Green Paper, Housing for the many, has a fundamental flaw at its heart. It says that a Labour … 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

Is Labour’s housing policy shifting leftwards? It’s official policy of suspending Right to Buy (RTB) sales was introduced by Teresa … More

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

Swindon Council’s second raid on the housing account As Swindon Council faces the decline of central government Revenue Support Grant … More

Ken Loach “Martin Wicks has written a valuable account of a grassroots campaign from the inside, but the book is … More

Council housing and the housing crisis A book by Martin Wicks Everybody knows there is a housing crisis. However, it … More