Andrew Wood: We need clear rules to ensure fairness by councils providing property for faith groups

A stricter separation between church and state at local level would safeguard against political patronage.

Gary Porter: Self-build and custom build will become increasingly important to delivering the new homes we need

In the UK, we have lost the capacity for individuals to provide or commission homes individually tailored to their needs.

Robert Halfon: Now is the time for Common Market 2.0, and an EFTA-type plan for Brexit

Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?

Murad Gassanly: Why I left the Labour Party

The Conservatives are the natural political home for those who value national identity and are open to the world.

Interview: Lord Bird says homelessness is not just for Christmas, and the death penalty might deter knife crime

The founder of The Big Issue expresses his aversion to liberalism, and his disappointment with the middle class.

John Moss: The next Mayor of London needs to back redevelopment of council estates, to get the new homes we need

Bold plans could see 100,000 extra properties. It would also mean an improved quality of housing for existing tenants.

Andrew Potter: Building cheap, cramped and poorly-insulated homes is a false economy

If we are going to build 300,000 homes and ensure public support, quality really counts. Let’s have new homes that we can be proud of for hundreds of years. 

Five years on, cutting the spare room subsidy has been vindicated

Work has been rewarded. Predictions of rent arrears increasing have been proved false. The number of households penalised has fallen from 660,000 to 381,000.

“Our friends and neighbours in social housing should not have to put up with second-rate homes.” May’s housing speech: full text.

The rise of social housing provided “biggest collective leap in living standards in British history”. Today, housing associations are the keepers of that legacy.

Bob Seely: Yes, Brexit and leadership are important. But so’s everything else. Here are some ideas for the future.

Scrap HS2. Integrate social care. Abolish NI. Reverse police cuts. Consider a new Bill of Rights. And much, much more.

Robert Halfon: Do Barwell’s bean-counters lack the vision to see why Tories must campaign for social justice?

Plus: why John Bald is wrong to be critical on this site of the Education Select Committee’s report on school exclusions.

Natalie Elphicke: The private renting experiment has failed six million people. Here’s an alternative approach.

There is compelling evidence that there are only two tenures – social housing and home ownership – by which wellbeing of people is supported effectively.

Andrew Potter: Attractive new homes can also be energy efficient

We offer social housing with traditional design and also saving our tenants around £500 a year on fuel bills. The Government should back this approach.

What Brokenshire is up to as Communities Secretary, sorry, Housing Secretary, sorry, Communities Secretary

He wants to take people with him in his quest to hit the Government’s target. But will radical policy ideas fit with his emollient political approach?

Right to buy sales are delivering replacement homes

Since 2010 there have been 90,730 sales through Right to Buy and councils have delivered 94 per cent of the replacements required to meet the one-for-one target.