This is an article published in Labour Briefing The contradiction between Labour’s official housing policies and the more radical aspirations … More
Category: Housing
We need 100,000 council homes a year, not “affordable homes”
Labour’s Housing Green Paper, Housing for the many, has a fundamental flaw at its heart. It says that a Labour … 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
Is Labour’s Housing policy shifting leftwards?
Is Labour’s housing policy shifting leftwards? It’s official policy of suspending Right to Buy (RTB) sales was introduced by Teresa … 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
Homelessness and the Housing Revenue Account
Swindon Council’s second raid on the housing account As Swindon Council faces the decline of central government Revenue Support Grant … More
“What Future for Council Housing?” now available
Ken Loach “Martin Wicks has written a valuable account of a grassroots campaign from the inside, but the book is … More
What future for Council Housing?
Council housing and the housing crisis A book by Martin Wicks Everybody knows there is a housing crisis. However, it … More
Osborne’s Mansion House speech: no market solution to the housing crisis
Download a PDF of this article here osbornemansionspeech2014 George Osborne’s recent Mansion House speech had a few rabbits in the … More
