Welsh Labour announce they’ll scrap right-to-buy
Welsh Labour have announced they will get right of the right-to-buy scheme, if they continue to hold the…
Housing
An election pledge card of two halves?
So far Ed Miliband has revealed two of Labour’s General Election pledges – first was a commitment to eliminating…
Changing Britain Together: Building homes
For millions of people across the country, buying a decent home at a price they can afford is…
We need rent controls to help solve London’s housing crisis
The words “rent control” are anathema to housing policy wonks and Westminster politicians. They react rather as a…
Is time for a London Housing Company to build more co-op housing?
Two anniversaries of events thirty years ago beg the question of the next Mayor of London – should…
Help Labour give people protection from predators in our property market
Everyone has horror stories about buying, selling or renting a house. All too often the villain is the…
What Labour need to do to deliver on housing
For a government that is supposedly all about “Localism”, it’s ironic that the Coalition’s chief planning reforms have…
Let’s meet London’s housing need
Meeting London’s housing need – it sounds like a simple idea, but it hasn’t happened for decades. If…
The debate about building ‘the homes we need’ has to go beyond numbers
Big numbers abound in housing debates and rightly so. Two-hundred thousand new homes – the number the Labour…
It’s time to put the Green Belt back on the table
The UK’s housing crisis has finally been recognised across the political spectrum as an issue that needs urgent…
