housing Articles

This week, I led Labour’s first opposition day debate of the new parliament in which we called on the government to bring forward a comprehensive plan to tackle the urgent and growing housing crisis. Meeting the demand for housing is one of the biggest challenges our...

The government’s housing bill is a mess. It makes promises that it will not be able to deliver and shows a complete lack of understanding for how the English housing market works. In this sense, it is nothing new. Part of the problem is that housing policy in England...

There is a huge opportunity now to move Tower Hamlets forward. The election, on the 11th June, for a new mayor, has been called because Lutfur Rahman was removed from office by an election court. The rot was exposed in Tower Hamlets when George Galloway became the...

This week Labour’s offer on housing came of age. Labour presented on Sunday and Monday a comprehensive package of policies which reflects both the natural aspiration of many people to own their own home, and the reality that for many the priority for delivering...