A transparency rule should require councils to publish all the Fire Risk Assessments for their housing blocks on their websites.
Placing every single decision in the hands of a tiny group is not a viable long-term strategy, but a recipe for total (nervous) breakdown.
Recent attacks on private landlords are restricting housing supply, hurting investors, and will push up rents.
May has a campaign for the country. She must complement it, as best she can, with one for you and your family.
Community Land Trusts and other schemes are making a positive difference around the country.
A victory for Create Streets which has been making the case that beauty matters and that high density does not need to mean high rise.
If she tries to work through populist edicts and diktats, she will fail. And if the Right argues that a few tax cuts for the richest will solve our problems, this will be no better.
The first piece in our mini-series on housing argues for the reduction of barriers to entry for the SMEs that are key to hitting the housebuilding targets.
The policy has been applied in Vancouver – and meant that house prices fell.
The first time most people know a development is happening is when the piling rig arrives.
By making it hard to guarantee rent payments, pursue debts, or get information on tenants, the current system undermines confidence and restricts supply.
They push dishonest figures on homelessness and council funding – but the belief of Labour councillors in their own civic virtue remains constant.
In Government, Labour built on the work of George Young in doing so. Now it’s time for some cross-party co-operation in reverse.
They could be replaced with at least 16,000 new homes.
It both firmly believes in home-owning democracy and aims to be a friend to renters too.