New research published by Sadiq Khan shows just how unaffordable the private rented sector has become in London...
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housing Articles
The Tory attack on affordable housing
The government are planning an attack on the aspirations of thousands of young people and families who simply want a...
As remote a prospect as playing in the Premier League
Today is #housingday, an initiative to celebrate the positive impact social housing has on thousands of people across...
It’s time for a social contract for garden cities
Garden cities are making for a fascinating debate. The country needs more homes and there is a good cross-party...
Gaining power to give it away
The general election is now less than eight months away and as the political battlelines are being drawn Labour is...
Capital Gains?
Londoners will vote for their next mayor on 5 May 2016, just under a year after the nation votes in the 2015 general...
Reconditioning Britain
The central challenge for a prospective Labour government is how to pursue a radical social agenda within limited...
Equal to Bank of England independence?
Politics is prone to hyperbole but it is no exaggeration to say that the creation of an independent infrastructure...
Building a new kind of city economy
That sustainable growth and the future of the British economy are linked to the health of the United Kingdom’s cities...
Challenging lazy assumptions about rural voters
We often assume that if you live in an urban part of the country, you will naturally vote Labour and if you live in...
A problem of scale
‘There are five of us living in a two-bedroom flat, the children fight all the time, there is no space for them to do...
A tax on London
A mansion tax is a good idea in principle. But in practice it raises a number of policy challenges. So shadow...