News Labour calls for extension of evictions ban as 250,000 face homelessness Labour has called on the government to extend the evictions ban and warned that nearly a quarter of… Elliot Chappell 18th August, 2020, 10:30 pm
Comment This proposed planning overhaul is another Tory assault on affordable housing The government has just launched a white paper with planning proposals for what the Prime Minister has described… Elliot Chappell 6th August, 2020, 3:25 pm
News Government has just days left to avoid “homelessness emergency”, says Labour The Labour Party is warning that the government has just days left to introduce legislation that would prevent… Elliot Chappell 13th July, 2020, 9:40 am
Comment 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… Wes Streeting 8th January, 2019, 3:53 pm
Comment 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… Shelly Asquith 11th December, 2018, 9:18 am
Comment 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… James Calmus 29th November, 2018, 1:25 pm
Comment 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 23rd August, 2018, 3:40 pm
Comment 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… Melanie Onn 24th July, 2018, 9:35 am
Comment 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… Andy Slaughter 19th January, 2017, 1:30 pm