housing associations Articles

In Lambeth, where I am a councillor, we have over 21,000 people on our waiting list. The average waiting time for a family home for people in high priority is around five to eight years. Private rents have soared and being evicted from a private tenancy is now the...

A view from 2020 – how David Cameron and George Osborne systematically destroyed the Labour party It is the year 2020. Five years since the Conservative party’s unexpected victory at the ballot box. Now they sit on a majority of 42. How did they do it? Perhaps the...

Prime ministers questions was certainly different today. And the prime minister was reminded on at least one occasion that he was confronting a new kind of politics. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn succeeded where others have failed and changed the tone. It was less...

As the three Labour councillors for Whitefoot Ward in the London borough of Lewisham, we have a very good working relationship with our local social housing provider, Phoenix Community Housing, who took over the running of the housing stock from Lewisham council in...