This latest Tory housing wheeze is likely to be as doomed as the last one
The homeless are being forgotten as the Tories seek to ‘level up’ housing.
Kevin Gulliver
Website Kevin writes for Left Foot Forward about housing and the impact of government policy on low income communities. He is the Director of Birmingham-based research charity the Human City Institute and Chair of the Centre for Community Research but writes in a personal capacity; Kevin's interests are social and economic policy, especially relating to housing, health, communities and inequalities.
As the Grenfell disaster inquiry starts again, it’s time for social housing tenants to be heard
Upcoming legislation must give a real voice to social housing tenants.
Forget the tabloid tantrums: Institutional racism is bigger than any royal race row
British society remains rigged against BAME people.
It’s time to end the dire legacy of Thatcherism
The hard right’s takeover of the Tory Party is almost complete – but we can stop it.
Ten years of austerity will leave behind a legacy of homelessness
“What’s troubling is that the likely future Prime Minister will probably care even less about social housing than his two predecessors.”
Grenfell showed government’s neglect of people living in social housing
Social tenants need more power over their landlords.
Without economic equality, ‘social mobility’ will always be a fantasy
The rich will always do better in life – we must reduce the gap between rich and poor.
40 years since her election, Margaret Thatcher still casts a long shadow over Britain
We’re picking up the pieces to this day, writes Kevin Gulliver.
Until politicians take radical steps to level the playing field, social mobility will keep getting worse
Private school privilege must be tackled
Institutional racism persists two decades after the McPherson report
In some ways, its got worse