Residential fires are extremely upsetting & my thoughts are with those who have lost their lives, their loved ones and the injured at such a difficult time.

Borrowing £1.5billion ‘right thing to do’ says council leader

Currently sat down in the reception of Islington council again… I’ve been asking for a meeting with senior management for the past week.

This manifesto for a post-growth, de-commodified housing strategy is close to what we have been proposing. A very good (long) read

It terrifies me that councils act to house homeless people when @Kwajotweneboa tweets What happens when he's not there? I see similar cases all the time. When I call the press office, insisting on answers, things change. But that's now how a functional housing system works.

Because we are only as strong as the weakest link

Used to tell @AngelaRayner this was on her watch but it’s always been on @SteveReedMP #FlogBabyFlog

Follow the day by day coverage and insights to the Aylesham Centre @ACAPeckham Planning Inquiry with the Planning Inspectorate at @lb_southwark https://t.co/mFww38wESU #RightForPeckham #PeckhamNotForSale #NoPriceOnCulture

Ministry of Plenty up to its old tricks again #Orwell https://t.co/eHsqECEyGO Ministries in Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

With £2.8bn spent annually on temporary housing and £30bn+ each year on housing benefit it'd make sense for public money to buy them at discounted rate. But this govt is completely in hock to volume developers, so won't do it.

This will not go away @SteveReedMP - and we will remember the failure to act on an industrial scale overcharging that landlords are getting away with. We're happy to talk solutions like this: https://t.co/whGIwX2jF6 If you support action on this abuse - please sign!

Next @TheBartlettUCL @UCL_BSP London Planning seminar is this thursday 1730h hybrid on New Towns https://t.co/s5Mm9okvRT

Cowboy developer cut off and blocked several of the boiler flues of the building I live in. Also built over our boundary and refused to do party wall. Local council wont’t enforce. Building control is private company who keep referring us to the council. System is such a mess.

FT: confusing housing need with demand leads to massive policy failure. A huge number of people need a home: far fewer can actually afford to buy one. We need a wholesale change in how we commission, fund and build new homes. SOCIAL HOUSEBUILDING NOW!

An Observation on Angela Rayner and the Labour Government: One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose

Nobody should have to pay for housing that makes them sick! Our members have been forced to endure hazardous conditions for too long. On the day that Awaab's Law comes into force, it's time for @hackneycouncil to finally rehouse our members in safe homes now!

If you’re a private landlord who thinks it’s acceptable to rent out slum housing that puts your tenants’ health and safety at risk, you shouldn’t just lose the right to be a landlord - there’s a strong case that you should be behind bars. The renters rights bill is rebalancing

Digging up the foreshore? @footpath47 @paulpowlesland probably a perfectly good reason for doing this, the developer knows best except when they don't

Regular reminder that Thames Water’s terrible performance is based on the sewage spills *we know about*. On every river in the Thames catchment there are illegal & unknown sewage spills happening that Ofwat, the Environment Agency & the government have no idea about. The actual

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