Melanie Onn: The Tories aren’t interested in helping private renters
It is anticipated that there will be five million people in the private rented sector by 2022, a…
Housing
Melanie Onn: Three housing policies I’d like the Tories to steal from Labour
The number of rough sleepers is a national disgrace. Rough sleeping has nearly trebled since the Conservatives took…
Helen Hayes: The latest Tory U-turn on housing is welcome – but two years late
The Tory and Liberal Democrat-led governments we have lived under since 2010 have been a complete disaster for…
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…
Sarah Jones: Raab’s record? Six housing failures in six months
We have a new Brexit Secretary, and yet another departing housing minister. As Kit Malthouse goes through the…
“A decent home is not a privilege for the few but a right owed to all” – Corbyn’s full speech on housing
This is the full text of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech today at the launch of Labour’s ‘Housing for the…
Labour plans to scrap Tory definition of affordable housing
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Today Jeremy Corbyn and shadow housing…
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…
John Healey: By scrapping mortgage support, the Tories will end homeownership for thousands
Today ministers end a support scheme for struggling homeowners that governments of all parties have run for 70…
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.…
