Labour should introduce a duty on councils to build council housing in the framework of the housing revenue account Labour’s … More
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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
A strange form of progress – the reality behind the coalition government housing propaganda
You can download a PDF of this here coalitionpropaganda The Oxford English Dictionary definition of propaganda is “information, especially of … More
Swindon’s Census: what does it tell us about the housing crisis in Swindon?
The 2011 Census statistics for Local Authorities and wards are now available on line. I’ve just started ploughing through the … More
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