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Chris Worrall

Housing

Michael Gove’s plans to make developers pay for the cladding crisis are ill-thought-out

Chris Worrall
17 March, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

The government is merely taking money from private capital pots for new construction and forcing the reallocation to remediation without appreciating what impact that will have on new supply.

A row of houses

The housing crisis can’t be solved by listening to those who deny we have a shortage of houses

Chris Worrall
1 March, 2023 (4 weeks ago)

Our housing columnist looks at a series of policy and briefing documents on the housing crisis

Housing Column: Labour must not try to out Tory the Tories on the Green Belt

Chris Worrall
15 February, 2023

‘Brownfield sites alone will “almost certainly never be enough to meet the country’s housing need”.

Housing

The rise of pro-housing Labour politicians should be applauded

Chris Worrall
2 February, 2023

‘With new blood coming into politics and policymaking, pro-housing stances are now finally being taken’

Social Housing

England’s social housing sector needs renewal and here’s how to do it

Chris Worrall
19 January, 2023

‘Labour must offer a social housing funding mechanism that not only provides new supply, but tackles the systemic need for rehabilitation of existing stock.’

Why Labour’s policy to increase homeownership through a new mortgage guarantee scheme will not work

Chris Worrall
4 January, 2023

Only policy targeting reductions in income inequality will help first-time buyers and improve homeownership levels

Home truths: What we can learn from the ‘Return of Squalor’ in Britain

Chris Worrall
10 November, 2020

The neglect of housing here is a national scandal. A new anthology lifts the lid on a decade of policy failure.

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