#SocialHousing

I know I keep droning on about this, but the main point of Shared Ownership is to provide a private revenue stream for housing associations. Giving ppl the illusion of
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Developer @PersimmonHomes agreed to provide 2 football pitches in Saffron Walden as part of a new development. But years later, the pitches sit empty, unused and untouchable.What's going on? @LiamHalligan
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Who benefits from Permitted Development Rights? Not homeless households who will have to live in the crap homes they create for wont of any decent alternative, and not leaseholders, but
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A thread on the @HousingMagazine article – below - outlining housing associations' responses to Gov proposed reforms of #SharedOwnership.1/8@Gavhollander https://www.socialhousing.co.uk/news/news/government-proposals-on-shared-ownersh
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The facts of the matter are this: people once helped by #SocialHousing now have to rely on the fag end of the #PRS because there isn't enough social stock in
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Another day, another @guardian article that minimises the achievements of the Blair/Brown Labour government. I've never understood the strategy behind talking down your party's last government - it hardly inspires
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Recently, I was asked to give a seminar for @MHCLG’s planners on the challenges faced by local authority planners delivering against the #climateemergency, because I work with lots of councils
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Our rugged individualism has become a toxic individualism.Too often, Americans sacrifice collective good for individual gain. That was something I explored this week for the @latimes section devoted to culture
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A 3 min interview can be a struggle to get across nuanced points about the complexity of things like #housing #inequality and #conditions. So perhaps this short thread might help
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