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…
Housing
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…
A rent increase for our Armed Forces tells you all you need to know about David Cameron
This week the Government announced that it would be making changes to accommodation for our service personnel and their…
Only Labour will build homes for the next generation
By Hilary Benn and Emma Reynolds When work on Milton Keynes, the last new town built in England,…
There’s much to welcome in the Lyons report – but councils could do so much more
The home is absolutely central to people’s lives. The affordability and condition of one’s home has perhaps the…
Labour’s housing plans – better, but nowhere near ambitious enough
Today Ed Miliband launches the long-awaited Lyons review, which is intended to outline how Labour would solve the…
Balls says earmarking money to fund housing pledge will be a priority
Ed Balls last night promised to prioritise earmarking billions of pounds to fund Labour’s pledge to build 200,000…
Labour now gets it on housing
This week Vince Cable warned of “inequalities caused by the housing crisis”, fuelled by government policies like Help…
Where is Labour going on housing?
If Labour Conference was great for the Health Service, it was something of a disaster for housing. Statements…
