Joe Halewood on the end of social rent
July 17th, 2017
@SpeyeJoe has been writing about social housing for a long time and in vivid terms with figures to back up his assertions. Today is no exception and if you haven’t heard of him now is the time to start.
Affordable housing? Oh no its not! End of social housing too! We need to talk ..
In his latest article he writes about the end of social rents across the country as housing associations abandon rents based on income for an “affordable” model which isn’t.
I’ve added his blog link to my “blog roll” in the right hand column as Joe Halewood.
Council housing 1976 – 2017 – C4 News
July 6th, 2017
In a section about the CIH Conference last week C4 news included a few statistics …
Stats
June 24th, 2017
Yesterday (23rd June) the page on scissor maisonettes overtook Crap Flats for the first time ever. I can only account for this by the interest in Grenfell Tower (which are not scissor maisonettes, it’s a point block) which has pushed several posts up the table in the last week.
Grenfell Tower – Lakanal report
June 15th, 2017
General Election 2017 – not the last this year
June 11th, 2017
“You’ve got the Leader of the Opposition coming on the programme as a kind of victor and you’ve got the Prime Minister who’s supposed to have won the election, in hiding.”
George Osborne speaking on The Andrew Marr Show
“Even if he hasn’t won, he has publicly destroyed the logic of neoliberalism – and forced the ideology of xenophobic nationalist economics into retreat.”
I am thrilled that Jeremy Corbyn did so well in last Thursday’s election and pleased that so many former Parliamentary critics of his have had the good grace to wish him well and say they were wrong about his prospects.
Vote Tory and kiss the NHS goodbye
May 29th, 2017
Following the “debate” last night which, incidentally, I think Jeremy Corbyn won hands down,
I found this. It makes chilling watching. I recommend you watch it and make up your own mind.
Subsidy II -> this from ASH
May 28th, 2017
Far from being subsidised by the state, the rents on most post-war estates paid off the cost of their construction and debt interest years ago, and are in fact making a profit for councils and housing associations. It is the Right to Buy council homes, the Help to Buy affordable housing, the housing benefit paid to private landlords, …
Read the whole thing, all the ten points. I know ASH have made enemies but they mostly get it right and I respect their intentions. The Guardian not publishing the ten points says more about the Guardian’s rightward drift than it does about ASH.
Some election thoughts 2017
May 13th, 2017
Guardian comments on the coming election
May 1st, 2017
This is so good I’m copying from the Guardian with a link to the full article …
The great turning points in terms of UK General Elections were 1945 and 1979. The Attlee victory in 1945 ushered in a new era of public ownership and state intervention as the UK sought to rebuild the nation after a decade and a half of war and depression. The country was shattered, exhausted, its economy broken, its infrastructure in tatters. Workers were in no mood to return to the pre-war days of the 1930’s and were demanding a better deal, a land fit for heroes. … read on
I agree with every word of it and encourage anybody thinking of voting Tory to think again. John Crace already calls May Kim-Jong-May and for good reason. She decided on an election the day after Erdogan won his narrow victory in Turkey. Coincidence or not?