/ April 5, 2019 at 9:30 AM
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By Glyn Thomas Chipping Barnet CLP The left-leaning think tank The Smith Institute has published a new report called “The unspoken decline of outer London; why is poverty and inequality increasing in outer London and what needs to change?” The…
/ April 1, 2019 at 12:56 PM
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By Dermot Mckibbin Beckenham CLP Introduction A bi-partisan leasehold reform inquiry report by the House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee has trashed the English leasehold tenure system. Using strong language, the report concluded that: “Too often,…
/ December 4, 2018 at 9:57 PM
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There’s a ritual in the House of Commons when it comes to debating poverty. It goes along the lines of Jeremy Corbyn challenging Theresa May about the huge weight of evidence showing rising poverty in this country. May always answers…
/ November 21, 2018 at 10:06 AM
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It often seems that the term ‘council tenant’ automatically comes with the word ‘subsidised’ in front of it. It is part and parcel of the stigmatisation of the tenure by many politicians and much of the media – and even…
/ July 27, 2018 at 11:35 AM
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Following Roger Jarman’s Red Brick post on reforming residential property taxes, Dave Treanor’s two-part post looks at capturing planning gain, taking acount of the Parliamentary inquiry into ‘Land Value Capture’ and this week’s revised National Planning Policy Framework. Today’s part…
/ August 7, 2017 at 9:24 PM
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Red Brick is delighted to publish a guest blog by the St. Ann’s Redevelopment Trust (StART), the community land trust in Haringey, about the work they are doing and the broader case for CLTs. Across the capital, Labour councils have…
/ November 25, 2016 at 10:45 AM
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It is hard to imagine a housebuilding policy that could be more extreme than the position reached by David Cameron and George Osborne last year. Having virtually ended new programmes of social rented homes, in favour of the so-called ‘affordable…
/ November 21, 2016 at 11:44 AM
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The latest housebuilding figures, and especially the disastrously low figures for affordable homes and the virtual disappearance of new homes for social rent, have refocused attention on housebuilding. In the run up to the Autumn Statement there has been some…
/ November 18, 2016 at 9:06 AM
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BY Dermot Mckibbin, Beckenham CLP* This review was commissioned by the John Healey MP Shadow Secretary of State for Housing though is independent of the Labour Party. Peter Redfern, the Chief Executive for Taylor Wimpey chaired the review. (click here…
/ October 25, 2016 at 11:55 AM
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Dave Hill is an award-winning (and deservedly so) commentator on London and I’ve never had much cause to take issue with him. But on the issue of regeneration/gentrification (they are not the same but let that pass for now) he…
/ October 18, 2016 at 10:20 AM
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Back in 2012 Red Brick dubbed the Government’s ‘Troubled Families’ programme ‘policy-based evidence making’. The newly-released (and sneaked out) evaluation of the billion pound programme proves our point. Despite constant claims by Government that the programme was ‘turning round’ the…
/ September 27, 2016 at 11:29 AM
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See the complete shortlist here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/26/turner-prize-2016-review-tate-britain-micheal-dean-anthea-hamilton-helen-marten-josephine-pryde#img-4
/ September 20, 2016 at 10:18 PM
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With poor timing I suspect I’m about to get on the wrong side of history with this post, coming just a few days before the Leadership ballot result. But here goes anyway. I’m in Labour because I believe that the…
/ July 18, 2016 at 8:16 AM
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You need all your fingers and toes to count the number of Ministers of Housing we have had in the last 30 years. The short term nature of occupancy of the job is one of the reasons we have had…
/ May 31, 2016 at 9:27 AM
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At the recent annual general meeting of the Labour Housing Group, addressed by Shadow Housing Minister John Healey MP, there was a general air of disbelief that housing policy could have become so perverted that the most extraordinarily damaging legislation…
/ May 17, 2016 at 9:18 AM
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There are few things that irritate me more (although Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith irritate me the most) than lazy stereotypes about council housing estates and council tenants. Sadly, an article this morning in the Guardian by Rhiannon Lucy…
/ May 3, 2016 at 8:58 AM
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One of the constant refrains on Red Brick over the years has been the need to direct Government funding as far as possible towards increasing housing supply, which will help cool prices. We have argued that it is counterproductive to…
/ April 7, 2016 at 9:56 AM
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Big is beautiful – and more efficient. That’s the mantra that seems to be driving the housing association world at the moment. Egged on by the Government in the shape of the increasingly desperate Housing Minister Brandon Lewis, we have…
/ April 5, 2016 at 10:40 AM
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I rarely disagree with anything that comes from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Their work over the years on housing, regeneration and poverty has been second to none. But this week they surprised me by publishing a ‘Memo for the new…
/ March 25, 2016 at 7:48 AM
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Steve Hilditch reads and enjoys a new book on the private rented sector, but thinks the ‘what should we do about it’? question remains to be answered. What to do about private rents has been a perennial debate over…
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