Martin Luther King famously said that “The Vietnamese must look upon us strange liberators.” So must the Iranians in the…
Rent increase: tenants should not pay the cost of government underfunding of council housing
Swindon council will argue that their proposed above inflation 2.7% rent increase for council tenants in 2020-21 is acceptable because…
2019 General Election – what happened?
Hasty conclusions on the scale of Labour’s general election defeat and preordained ‘solutions’ are worthless. Sweeping generalisations are being substituted…
Swindon as dormitory town?
According to government statistics not a single ‘social rent’ home was added to Swindon’s housing stock over the last five…
Revolt in Green Party against support for Liberal Democrats?
There are clear signs of a revolt amongst members of the Green Party against their party leadership’s support for the…
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…
The “Addison Act” and the building of Pinehurst
Parallels between the housing crisis in 1919 and today This pamphlet draws on original research into the Addison Act and…
Why Labour should commit to £10 billion a year for council housing
This article was published by Inside Housing . For those without access to IH you can read on below. Pete…
A fundamental change in Labour’s housing policy?
The composite housing resolution which went before Labour’s conference on Wednesday morning was passed unanimously. It marks a fundamental shift…
Labour shoud kill off Right to Buy, not breathe new life into it
This article was written before the Labour conference in response to a Financial Times article which reported that Labour was…
