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Posts Tagged: Social Housing

Felicity Buchan: We need new homes that are safe

If there is to be any positive legacy from the Grenfell fire, it must be that our building and fire safety regime is state of the art.

By Felicity Buchan | 12 August 2020 | 26 comments

Neil O’Brien: Planning reform needs to be handled with care

Limiting councils’ discretion could lead to a lot of fuss for little real change. The real problem is a geographically unbalanced economy.

By Neil O Brien MP | 10 August 2020 | 45 comments

John Moss: Khan has failed to deliver on housing. The Government should switch to funding the London boroughs instead.

Cut out the middleman. Go straight to the people who want to build – and help people who want to buy their home.

By John Moss | 10 August 2020 | 34 comments

Ben Everitt: Our housing market is a weird spaghetti of disincentives. This must be fixed.

The planning system is very tricky to navigate. That is good for lawyers – but bad for those wanting a good home to live in.

By Ben Everitt MP | 4 August 2020 | 32 comments

Judith Barnes: How to maintain the Right to Buy without losing social housing stock

Change the rules so there is a right to use the discount to buy a property in the private sector – not the home the tenant occupies.

By Judith Barnes | 25 July 2020 | 69 comments

Olivia Harris: The pandemic has shown the importance of housing for key workers

To keep the economy functioning, it must be affordable for some in relatively low-paid jobs to live in central London.

By Olivia Harris | 22 July 2020 | 8 comments

Shaun Bailey: Our Party shouldn’t be afraid of talking about social housing

We need to build a new generation of high quality, beautiful, green, affordable homes for people to rent and buy.

By Shaun Bailey MP | 7 July 2020 | 72 comments

Alex Morton: We need a Help to Build plan to save building new homes from collapse

By using the new grant as an incentiv those who are looking to buy would be more likely to buy a new build, enabling supply to continue.

By Alex Morton | 10 June 2020 | 25 comments

Daniel Pryor: Reducing homelessness. Housing First is a liberal approach based on harm reduction. We need more of it

When Crisis is saying the same thing as the Centre for Social Justice and ourselves at the Adam Smith Institute, politicians should listen.

By Daniel Pryor | 21 May 2020 | 11 comments

Neil O’Brien: Salvaging the economy. Could we just live with more borrowing for a bit? Maybe, maybe not.

Hopefully it will be crisis averted, and we’ll have a bit more time to fix the hole. But sooner or later, difficult choices on tax and spending are coming.

By Neil O Brien MP | 20 April 2020 | 14 comments

James Palmer: My plan to offer £100,000 homes in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

The discount will be passed on to future buyers, helping more people onto the property ladder.

By James Palmer | 13 March 2020 | 32 comments

Stephen Greenhalgh and Nick Botterill: Under Labour, Hammersmith & Fulham has become a borough of missed opportunity

The chance for new housing, of an improved standard, has been sabotaged. The dream of home ownership for thousands has been thwarted.

By Stephen Greenhalgh and Nick Botterill | 28 January 2020 | 2 comments

Birmingham Council owns more than 4,000 empty garages

Many of these buildings could be replaced with new homes. New rules are needed to end this scandal.

By Harry Phibbs | 7 January 2020 | 5 comments

Paul Mercer: Tackling homelessness from the ground up

The cost of putting individuals and families into temporary accommodation is significant. Finding secure accommodation is imperative.

By Paul Mercer | 24 December 2019 | 45 comments

Robert Halfon: For years, I’ve urged that the Conservatives become a Workers Party. Now it is one.

As the Prime Minister said, many people have lent us their vote, and they won’t be so generous next time if we get it wrong.

By Robert Halfon MP | 18 December 2019 | 52 comments

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