housing crisis
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.
Right-to-buy has stoked the housing crisis – but the Tories want to roll it out further
400,000 houses sold under right-to-buy are now being rented privately and for double average council rents. The policy's created a new class of buy-to-let landlords.
Why Sadiq Khan needs the powers to rein in London’s rental market
The Mayor is consulting on a new housing strategy for the capital. Rent controls have to form part of that, say the London Housing Campaign.
A ‘People’s Land Bank’ may the answer to the housing crisis
A national body directing home building on vacant public land could be the bold solution we need to our failing housing system.
Cutting stamp duty would be an admission of defeat on the housing crisis by the Tories
The Chancellor has signalled he may cut the tax for first time buyers. It would be a fig-leaf for the fact they've shelved their housing programme.
Revealed: the shocking conditions homeless families in London are forced to live in
Siobhain McDonagh MP, who investigated the temporary accommodation in her borough, called it 'an accident waiting to happen'.