housing Articles

Last weekend Richard Rogers’ renowned architectural practice Rogers Stirk + Harbour built a three-storey house in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in under 24 hours. Spacious, modern and environmentally friendly it went from flatpack to fully built faster than I...

I’ve been living in a suburb in America for the past 12 months, and there’s much to be said for it. Compared to anywhere I lived in the UK (London but also outside) there is an empowering sense of space allied with a reassuring comfortableness. By car it is very quick...

We may not have heard the champagne corks popping at the treasury on Thursday, but I would not be surprised if George Osborne raised a Pimm’s to celebrate the 0.6 per cent uplift in Quarter 2 GDP growth figures that were released by the Office for National Statistics....

Last week I was immensely proud to be part of a Labour cabinet in Southwark which made the commitment to build 10,000 new council homes – a new council home every day for the next 10,000 days. It was a commitment which has been developed over two years, following the...