council housing 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...

Council tenants cannot 'wait for Corbyn' before their Labour council starts improving their housing stock, argues Haringey resident Adrian McMenamin If the Jeremy Corbyn revolution has a ground zero, then I live there. I am not in Islington North: that begins, quite...

We owe it to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire to ensure we live up to our obligations to those in social housing, argues Progress strategy board member Christabel Cooper Unlike many cities in the world, London does not banish its council estates to the outskirts...

The housing crisis looms large in Greenwich, as it does the rest of London. Unsurprisingly, our most recent residents’ survey highlighted the provision of affordable, decent housing as a priority for many of our residents – people who are new to the borough and people...