Rachel Reeves Spring Statement housing pledge has to be a joke. Right…?
In the chancellor's Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves pledged £2bn to fund 18,000 social and affordable homes. That's 1.2% of the ...
Tag: social housing
The corporate capitalists are trying to gentrify Peckham – so Southwark residents are fighting back
On Saturday 1 March, Southwark residents will take to the streets in a powerful protest against the UK government’s handling ...
A Labour council has let rogue landlords illegally rent out social housing
Independent media outlet News From Crystal Palace has exposed alarming practices involving council-owned properties in Lambeth. It has discovered that ...
To tackle the housing, climate, and biodiversity crises, Labour must fix the rigged planning system
More than a century of unsustainable farming practices and urban development have taken their toll on nature and resulted in ...
Jeremy Corbyn talks more sense on housing in one BBC interview than parliament ever does
In an interview for BBC London, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ended the nonsense on housing through demanding the government ...
An outrage: private rents have risen by as much as 72% in just TEN years
The latest research by Tlyfe, the UK’s housing tenant lifecycle app launched by OpenBrix, has revealed that, over the last decade, ...
Landlords banked £56.2bn in rent from young people in ONE year. We need to end the scam immediately.
People under 45 are paying 66% of all rent in Britain. This amounted to a record £56.2bn for 2024, according ...
REVEALED: private landlords like Reeves and Starmer force 690k children into poverty
Both Labour Party prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves are private landlords. They are benefiting from a housing ...
Martin Lewis: we need YOUR help with a massive council tax banding scandal
Martin Lewis has been instrumental in raising awareness of the scandal of incorrect council tax banding. It is a widespread ...
Half of councils failed to prosecute ANY slum landlords in FIVE years
Data collected from councils around England and Wales highlight a sheer drop in rogue landlords being prosecuted, with more than ...
88% of the UK state’s housing budget goes into the pockets of landlords
88% of the UK's housing budget goes into the pockets of landlords, according to the 2024 UK Housing Review. In ...
Major concerns raised over just HOW Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill will even be enforced
A Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) expert member has highlighted key concerns about enforcement and licensing to a committee ...
Jeremy Corbyn nails what Grenfell means for the marketisation of housing
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has pointed out the broader implications of the Grenfell Tower disaster. Grenfell: "market domination" ...
Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill is yet more half-baked hand wringing from Rayner and Starmer
The Labour Party government has introduced its Renters' Rights Bill. Supporters of Keir Starmer have hailed the proposed legislation as ...
Rachel Reeves plans to build ‘affordable housing’ by making existing housing more unaffordable
Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to increase social rent for council and housing association tenants in order to pay for new ...
Disabled people march on Downing Street to demand accessible housing
This week disabled campaigners and allies marched on parliament to demand the new government pledge to build new accessible housing. ...
Reeves’ speech accidentally showed the Tory sleight of hand that will define the Labour government
New chancellor Rachel Reeves has already started as the Labour Party means to go on: courting big business while making ...
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