I'm thrilled and galvanised to be joining @insidehousing as a senior reporter next week. Can't wait to join the excellent team and share stories about one of the defining issues of our time🏠.

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A street in Mayfair where William Blake once lived is being refurbished and turned back into housing - including 11 affordable homes. I took a look round and spoke to the developers about the “mind-forged manacles” of conservation policy.

The prime minister writes exclusively for Inside Housing today . He discusses the new Affordable Homes Programme and warns “if we don’t build more homes, the consequences will be dire”.

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We have lift-off. The first Inside Housing Living Bulletin has been sent!. To find out why we have widened our gaze to the wider residential market, read my column.

Great scene from Martin Amis's Money about a one-sided tennis match between overweight alcoholic John Self and lean young Fielding, "raised on steaks and on milk sweetened with iron and zinc"

JLL predicts the government's new £39bn Affordable Homes Programme could fund up to 500,000 homes over the next decade or 50,000 a year "at a stretch". Note they would be spread between social rent, affordable rent and shared ownership.

I love me a good Tom McTague profile.

For now, this is a rare bit of good news as Britain faces down its horrendous housing shortage. I wouldn't go as far as saying we are so back, but we're sort of back.

Will the government go all-out for numbers to help meet their 1.5 million new homes target, or prioritise building homes for people on the lowest incomes? . We'll see by the end of summer when Homes England has designed the new Affordable Homes Programme.

So far Labour has directed around 60% of grant funding towards social rented homes. If they keep this ratio, we could still see total affordable house building remain level (or even fall), despite the funding boost. But the homes that are built will be much more affordable.

The question now is: how many homes will we get with all this cash? It comes down to which tenures Labour wants to prioritise. In 2010 we stopped building social rented homes, the most affordable tenure but the most expensive to build, in favour of higher 'affordable rent' homes.

The rent settlement is a shot in the arm for social landlords. Their finances have been hobbled for almost a decade and many have cut back on developing homes. Rent convergence will help to rebuild capacity and hopefully scale up housebuilding.

This works out as £3.9bn a year for affordable housebuilding - a significant boost from the £2.3bn a year given out under the Conservatives. Making the programme 10 years, up from five, creates certainty for developers and will help with large projects like new towns.

Now we know what Labour's “biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation” amounts to. I was prepared for the worst, but it's actually very positive news. 🏠£39bn grant funding over 10 years.🏠10-year rent settlement for landlords - with rent convergence.

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"Took three seconds" is the key bit here. It's not as good as a human writer agonising over every word, but if you're an editor desperate for speedy content it must be so tempting to turn to this.

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