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…

Labour’s Housing Green Paper – Part 1

We need 100,000 council homes a year not “affordable homes” “We have a housing crisis in this country that can…

Walking out of a Zionist Federation dinner

Those Labour politicians who supported the demonstration organised by the Board of Deputies against the Labour Party, did so on…

Anti-Semitism, real and counterfeit

What is the scale of the problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, real or imagined? I am not a…

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…

Swindon: the real picture – Part One

What’s happening with earnings? News from the Centre for Cities report was picked up by local politicians as an opportunity…

Labour should end Right to Buy

During his first leadership election Jeremy Corbyn was interviewed by Red Brick, the blog of London Labour Housing Group. He…

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…

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…

“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…