
I love my new flat. But I’m also sick of moving. We renters need a Greta Thunberg of the housing crisis.
MPs seem to think ‘it doesn’t affect me, so I’ll think about it later’ when they hear complaints from Generation Rent.
MPs seem to think ‘it doesn’t affect me, so I’ll think about it later’ when they hear complaints from Generation Rent.
The rate of successful appeals is apparently running higher even than it did during the 1980s.
In Epping Forest new developments are ‘community-led’. We are championing a right to shared ownership.
Ministers cannot simply continue to perpetuate a broken system because of the painfully obvious but so often unspoken political risk implicit in reforming the market.
Finding home ownership unaffordable means that many Conservatives have abandoned the capital.
Such a move could empower service users whilst helping provide the savings the Treasury need to make meaningful reform sustainable.
Like Ridley in the 1980s, the Secretary of State can brute-force his way past the NIMBY’s blocking tactics by granting appeals.
Residents who seek to develop derelict public sector sites need some protection from bureaucratic obstruction.
It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
Housing First is essential but not sufficient – if there are as many non-UK nationals sleeping on the streets post-Covid as before.
This government should not be afraid to fix the rules that are currently breaking our country’s housing market.
It’s not surprising that I do things differently, since I came to the role from a business background, rather than via the world of politics.
One of an occasional series of articles that ConservativeHome is publishing in advance of the Budget.
We need to focus on policies which will stimulate growth, benefit the many, and not breach the basic principles of fair taxation.
The Centre for Social Justice’s new report sets out in detail how the programme could be increased from 2,000 to 16,500 places.