Social housing requirements? Halved Access to daylight? Going Housing space standards? Going Biodiversity? Gone Green Belt? Gone Gardens? Gone Developer’s 20% profits protected? You betcha

We Can Deliver Un-subsidised Mass Council Housing (we did so in the past, so we could do so again) stevenboxall.wordpress.com/2…

Neoliberalism, trickle down economics, the Chicago school of economics call it what you will, it is no longer the high alter of intellectual thinking, it has been exposed as a fraud, possibly the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the British people. As my friend Stewart rather brilliantly explains. 👇👇👇Those about to rewrite monetary policy in this country would serve themselves well to study it carefully.

🚩🚩SHAPE and Save OKR March down Old Kent Road for council housing and against overdevelopment. Around 200 people joined the demonstration to demand the Old Kent Road Area Action Plan delivers for the community, local traders and cultural spaces.

Want a Planet in future? Don't destroy greenfields&pump construction emissions for houses priced for top 2% incomes for emptybubbles. Want to house homeless,low income&young people? see @homes4allUk @shapecoalition1 @emptyhouses @justspace7 @35percent_EAN

An important development which can provide a focus for campaigners to press for the council house building/acquisitions programme needed to begin to resolve the housing crisis. england.shelter.org.uk/suppo…

Serving notice on one income revenue in favour of a more lucrative “temporary” housing option. Asif Aziz’s may feel, it’s nothing personal, it’s just business but say that to those losing their home. Landlords all over the Capital are offloading in response to the Renters’ Rights bill. This bill was designed to safeguard tenants not make them homeless and paying more, which it inevitably will. @JoshGD @FT

Fabulous piece 👏 Also the trashing of The Elephant & Castle market with traders treated appallingly by Delancey developers. Many cast to the winds. Others accepted places that they said at the time would be unviable and are! @LatinElephant doing amazing advocacy work still!!

Andy Burnham’s “Manchesterism” rightly argues that the loss of public control of essential services worsens the cost of living crisis. This is the “Privatisation Premium”. Our new briefing explains this premium & how to fix it. 🧵 common-wealth.org/publicatio…

Good thread about great swathes of the Country impoverished & hollowed out. We need a levelling up project to the same extent as the reunification of East & West Germany. The UK is that unequal. Labour should have come into office with a plan.

As someone said to me recently, universities impoverish themselves and the towns and cities they're meant to be part of by attacking arts and humanities subjects @UCU @UniversitiesUK @timeshighered

The current rate of inflation is about 3%. My rent has increased by 5.76% and my service charge by 8.98%. Talk to me again about how shared ownership is affordable housing. @mtpennycook @MayorofLondon @tomcopley

This is what every council estate could look like if they hadn't been left to rot intentionally

Social cleansing of areas doesnt just affect housing & shops, the displacement of people destroys the long term, lovingly built-up networks of political organising & many & varied cultures of struggle Don't see this talked about much. Why so many parts of London are boring now🤷

FT (£) London landlord begins evictions ahead of new renters’ rights law: “Criterion Capital, founded by billionaire Asif Aziz, has served eviction notices to 130 residential units across its property portfolio.” ft.com/content/58e7e429-1581… via @ft

How it is that people with track record of failure get employed elsewhere? Sara Waller, who oversaw disastrous Homes for Lambeth, wasting millions and building very few homes, has been appointed CEO of Ebbsfleet DC and tasked with building a whole town: ebbsfleetgardencity.org.uk/2…

Temi delivering her speech challenging Lambeth labour to pause the move of the Central Hill day dementia services until many more assurances are given. It's been ill considered and will not deliver the savings expected, without causing damage to the most vulnerable in Lambeth.

Wrote about Criterion Capital's large-scale eviction of tenants, which some residents told me was being done to make way for the move-in of temporary accommodation residents. A sort of inverse-gentrification driven by 'guaranteed rent' in the TA sector. as.ft.com/r/5f0d091d-cb14-48…

Women from Afghanistan have been banned from education by Taliban for 4+ years. One beats every odd. Gets accepted to a UK university. Overcomes 1,000 obstacles. And then the UK denies her a visa. Deeply shameful, @ShabanaMahmood. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2j…

“Nature campaigners have said government policies to deregulate planning policy for homes & infrastructure could lead to an erosion in the amount of green space available, particularly for those in less well off, urban areas.” theguardian.com/environment/…

4/3/26 Mortgage Strategy/Hamptons: Approx 40% of flats unmortgageable due to inflating service charges passing 1% of value (as values decline). England & Wales average service charge £2,405 pa in 2025, & growth is ahead of CPI. mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news/…