housing Articles

You have to be pretty out of touch with reality to go into an election, during a severe housing shortage, with a measure that will reduce the availability of affordable homes across the country. That is what the Tories did in promising to introduce the right to buy...

There has been a lot of recent discussion about affordable housing, including proposals to extend the right to buy scheme. As a council tenant who lives in an adapted flat, I cannot buy it because there are so few adapted flats that disabled people are often exempt...

There is one issue which surpasses all others in my constituency of Mitcham and Morden. At my weekly advice surgery, over half of the people I see are struggling with housing. People who do not have a roof over their head, people who are living in a standard of rented...

The London mayoral election will be no shoo-in for Labour, warns Tessa Jowell Last month, Labour lost. We lost badly. It was an awful experience. But it should also galvanise us. Labour has to learn how to win again, not out of self-interest but because that is the...