Wes Streeting: This country needs good quality social housing, now
Growing up in a council flat, I thought I was unlucky. Born and bred in Stepney, in London’s…
Shelter
Shelly Asquith’s TU-esday round-up: Worker wins at Cammell Laird, Shelter and for Yorkshire dinner ladies
Some good news. If you hadn’t already heard, the six-week strike involving hundreds of workers at Cammell Laird…
A rough sleeping map: visualising austerity across England
Following the release of Shelter’s report on homelessness last week, I’ve developed a tool to visualise publicly available…
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…
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…
Andy Slaughter: Legal changes alone will not cure the epidemic of homelessness
The cross-party homelessness reduction bill, which is due to come back to the house of commons for report…