Melanie Onn: Most homeless families are in work. This is a broken system
We now live in a country where more than half of the families who don’t have a home to…
Homelessness
Shelly Asquith: Labour should promise to scrap Section 21 evictions
Labour is currently consulting on new policies as part of its 2018 ‘Policy Commission’. The NEC has assigned…
WATCH: What the Tory housing crisis looks like – Labour’s new party political broadcast
Labour’s latest party political broadcast shines a spotlight on the UK’s housing crisis under the Tory government. The video…
Melanie Onn: Rough sleeping has soared by 170% – but the Tories “don’t know” why
The homelessness minister revealed in an interview with The Guardian that she doesn’t know why homelessness has risen.…
The crisis on our doorstep – our national homelessness shame
At the back end of a cold winter, the UK has witnessed the savage effects of what should…
A Tale of Two Cities
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The single market is the best antidote to the toxic cocktail of Brexit and the Tories
As a Labour councillor in the frontline of the battle against Brexit and Tory rightwingery, I knew when…
Joe Anderson: Housing is too important to leave to the iniquities of the free market
It’s hardly surprising that for the first time since the slum clearances in the 1950s and 1960s, there…
Sadiq Khan: Tory cuts have let people fall into poverty but Labour will never turn a blind eye to rough sleeping
In the 21st century, in one of the world’s richest countries, no-one should feel that sleeping on the…
PMQs verdict: Corbyn lands his core arguments on Christmas housing crisis
As Brexit hangs over the day, this was a traditional tussle on domestic policy between Jeremy Corbyn and…
