May blames “nimby councils” for housing crisis, ignoring 30 years of Tory attacks on social housing
The PM thinks she can get away with blaming local authorities for the lack of house building in the UK, totally ignoring the facts.
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Comment: The cost of private rent is out of control
Instead of providing homes for people at rents we can pay, our taxes are subsidising extortionate rents on a massive scale
It’s time to defend social housing against negative media stereotypes
A new campaign is asking politicians to take the lead in affirming the positive value of social housing.
Confusion reigns over government rent policy for social housing
The chancellor’s recent Spending Review announcement and a subsequent letter from a civil servant to council housing authorities confirm that the government has got itself in a real muddle over policy towards rents in social housing.
Right to Buy relies on several mistaken assumptions
A recent article on Conservative Home bemoaning the fact that the reinvigorated Right-to-Buy policy has not taken off and suggesting a further raising of the discount deserves challenging by the reality-based policy community.
Building social housing would cut the housing benefit bill three times faster than a cap
Cormac Hollingsworth shows how social housing could be the best way to save money on housing benefit: Three times as effective as a cap.
How Thatcher’s “property owning democracy” turned sour for today’s “jilted generation”
Three reports on housing bubbles give little hope to Britain’s young wishing to get onto the ladder writes the Green Party’s London Assembly member Jenny Jones