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Decent Homes Articles

Shards of light amid the current gloom of housing

While there is little political disagreement that one of, if not the biggest, crisis facing the country is in housing, there seems little willingness among members of the current government to take the radical steps needed to address it. Indeed, as last week's budget...

Home is where the hurt is

Housing was a mixed bag for the Labour government. Fewer policies make me prouder than the Decent Homes Programme, but we never built enough new homes where demand was highest and, too often, we sounded technocratic. We talked about houses not homes, and reeled off...

Fighting youth unemployment locally

Over the last two days two reports have highlighted the dramatic scale of the growing youth jobs crisis. Both the ACEVO Commission on Youth Unemployment launched by David Miliband, and the London Citizens inquiry into the Tottenham riots have demanded action on the...

Home truths

The government is right to seek to contain the housing benefit bill but wrong to simply top-slice it. Instead, it should draw on housing policy tools, such as landlord registers and social letting agencies, to bring down the benefit bill in a way that supports tenants rather than displacing them.