Council set to buy 300 ex-council homes for refugees and other homeless families
A Labour-run council in London is set to purchase more than 300 former council homes, in a move…
Right-to-Buy
Best Labour leaders we never had: Anthony Greenwood
In 1960, the Labour Party was split on one policy above all: unilateral nuclear disarmament. After the 1960…
Rumours of a reshuffle intensify, with report one may happen as soon as July
The rumour mill about a potential reshuffle of Labour’s frontbench team continues to whirr. According to a Times report on…
Nandy backs right to buy and reducing greenbelt but shuns rent controls
The Labour party backs tenants’ right to buy social housing to “extend wealth ownership”, but does not support…
Right to Buy will never be ‘sustainable’ – Labour must scrap the disastrous policy
At the Labour Party conference in September, Lisa Nandy told a fringe meeting that Right to Buy (RTB)…
Without ending Right to Buy, there can be no resolution to the housing crisis
The Labour Campaign for Council Housing has produced a statement calling on Labour to commit to ending Right…
Minister admits Boris Johnson’s housing policy will not help “most” people
Lisa Nandy has declared that “far more ambition” is needed to tackle the UK’s housing crisis after a…
Johnson plans to sacrifice yet more of our social housing stock to save his job
Scratching around for a ‘red-meat’ policy to salvage his premiership, Boris Johnson has revived the idea of extending…
Government accused of “stealing” Right to Buy cash from local councils
Campaigners have accused the government of effectively “stealing” money raised by the sale of council houses under Right…
Why we’re asking Labour NEC candidates to tell us if they are landlords
We formed Labour Tenants United in the wake of the outrage spawned by the plan to have tenants…
