The final report from the Shelter social housing commission calls for more than 3m new social homes to be built over the next two decades, extended social tenants’ rights, and greater regulation of the private rented sector.
The government’s house-building targets are too low
The BBC host lamented the rising number of homeless people on the streets of Britain during the festive season, but forgot to explain why. Kevin Gulliver writes.
Why was the new Work and Pensions boss’ first Parliamentary statement to reject the United Nation’s findings on poverty?
National Housing Day: Tory plans will barely scratch the surface of the crisis in social housing, writes Kevin Gulliver.
Kevin Gulliver argues that Labour will need the ‘big battalions’ of the state and the ‘little platoons’ of civic society to build a fairer Britain.
Technocratic tinkering won’t solve the housing crisis.
Public schools perpetuate a system of social immobility. Kevin Gulliver argues that to build a fair Britain we need to end the likes of Eton and Harrow.
A year on from Grenfell, the Tories’ new Green Paper on social housing will barely cover the cracks when it comes to the growing precariousness faced by tenants.
In a speech at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Lib Dem leader put forward a set of proposals to tackle Britain’s housing crisis. But Kevin Gulliver is not convinced.
