house building Articles

Squalor: Council housing is in retreat and the private rented sector out of control No one wrote squalor like Charles Dickens. Just as society was waking up to the risks – individual and public – of the urban slums of industrial Britain, Dickens captured the images...

Jeremy Corbyn was right to attack David Cameron on his barely thought through housing announcement. Cameron was right to say that many high rise estates need to be replaced, but we need to challenge the prime minister on his throwaway comment that these estates were...

The government’s housing bill is a mess. It makes promises that it will not be able to deliver and shows a complete lack of understanding for how the English housing market works. In this sense, it is nothing new. Part of the problem is that housing policy in England...

The issue of the provision of new homes is an important topic of national political debate for the first time since the 1960s. We welcome this debate, because we believe that here in Birmingham we are leading the way in both providing new homes ourselves, but also...