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Publication day! A social & architectural history of post-war Scottish new towns: planning & buildings plus community, family, gender, work, education, home. The ebook is FREE via bit.ly/4hLkxn9. Print copy (more attractive!) via www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-... - do ask libraries to purchase

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

📣 Clarion Housing Association ordered to pay significant compensation for discriminating against tenant 📣 Ms Feeney was represented by Nick Bano of the GCC #HousingLaw Team, instructed by Serdar Celebi & Anna Jones of Islington Law Centre. Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/clarion-hous...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Regardless of who is in power, the UK gov are obsessed with building new houses, mostly on greenbelt land. Not talking about the hundreds of thousands of homes that are empty. Not talking about rebuilding on existing sites. Not talking about landlords, or 2nd homes. Not talking about social housing.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

An outrage: private rents have risen by as much as 72% in just TEN years The latest figures show that private landlords are profiteering more than even from the lack of social housing - extorting tenants to the hilt www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever you see anybody's plan for growth in the UK and it involves absolutely no social housing, you know who they want the benefits of growth to go to.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Sad how severely neglected social housing has gotten in the UK, either ignored by the local council or governed by housing groups that essentially make a profit off welfare slums that encase every tenant with black mold

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

📣 Nick Bano of the Garden Court Chambers #HousingLaw Team writes in @theguardian.com : 'England’s renters are about to gain more rights, but until then landlords may exploit weak regulation even more cruelly' 🏘️ Read on here 🔽 theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

🔴A Total Eclipse of The Sun Why the refusal by the British press and politicians to touch revelations of serious criminality at The Sun tells us everything we need to know about how power really works in the UK www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/a-total-ec...

submitted 29 days ago • 42 comments

“So the stage was set for the next evolution of Big Tech – the full Matrix. Not only do these tech monopolies covertly feed off our data for energy and finance, they play back to us a tailored reality to disguise their real role” bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/h...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors. Except it's all a lie. Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.

submitted 29 days ago • 39 comments

1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵

submitted 31 days ago • 71 comments

No Govt has cut public spending, cut services, jobs, wages & secured economic growth. UK PM says he will be "ruthless" in cutting public spending People will spend less. Due to lack of good food, housing, healthcare, education many won't be able to work Madness leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...

submitted 35 days ago • 52 comments

Why is child homelessness still rising? Because the net number of social homes is still falling. That is why. It’s a political choice. Please email your MP to change that choice in the #SpendingReview this Spring using our quick & easy #Shelter tool ⬇️ campaigns.shelter.org.uk/end-child-ho...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

So it turns out they spent £715 million on sending a grand total of FOUR volunteers to Rwanda. For comparison, this is more than you could expect to spend on building an entire brand new hospital in the UK

submitted 83 days ago • 100 comments

Too many UK MPs take second jobs, serve corporations, get rich. Claim it helps to serve people. Oh ... Hardly any volunteer to work for charities, hospices, food banks, housing associations ... there is no money in it. Must ban second jobs for MPs. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...

submitted 39 days ago • 29 comments

The UK’s housing costs are sucking life out of our economy youtu.be/yMB9HsJCWmg?... The UK has housing costs 44% more than in similar countries. That means instead of fueling growth and providing for children, the younger people who pay these costs are fueling growing inequality.

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

Farage attending the launch of a new staunch climate denial group in the UK that has taken funds from oil giant ExxonMobil ? Not particularly out of character , since Dec 2019 92% of donations to Reform UK were from fossil fuel interest groups or climate deniers , per @desmog.bsky.social .

submitted 39 days ago • 40 comments

The Housing Forum has responded to the Government's consultation on the Right to Buy. The proposed reforms, will reduce sales, so help retain social housing stock. forum/https://housingforum.org.uk/right-to-buy-consultation-response-from-the-housing-forum/

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 39 days ago • 145 comments

The Government’s own shocking data shows a staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS dental appointment fail to get one We all need to back the @thebda.bsky.social in its call for urgent action to save NHS dentistry youtu.be/UtqAtGAnuC0?...

submitted 39 days ago • 22 comments

www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/nrla-sl...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting development. We’ll see how many councils follow suit with full licensing schemes. www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/london-...

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/renters...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Solar panels are becoming so cheap the Swiss are looking at installing them between train tracks !!! www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Number crunching: Hike in water bills for Southern Water customers v CEO salary. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

submitted 41 days ago • 36 comments

In opposition, Labour rightly said that giving NHS contract to private healthcare weakens the NHS, provided a worse service and costs the tax payer more. Then private healthcare donated a ton of money to Labour. Now labour have given a huge increase in NHS contracts to private healthcare.

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

Jeez. Aren't you glad we voted the Tories out and ended the years of cuts and austerity 😅🤦 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

At what point do we say enough is enough? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

WARNING - Labour isn't Labour anymore. Starmer and Reeves only care about installing the Tories corporate political model of governance which involves carving up the UK into patchworks of corporate sovereignties. My latest article on Substack open.substack.com/pub/european...

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

Rachel Reeves refused permission for the National Audit Office to investigate England's 48 SEZ's and 8 Freeports despite a damning report from the House of Commons Committee in April 2024. Next up Blackrock and Labour plan to privatise the UK. Thread

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

What have I been saying for the last 5 years? Deregulated SEZs and Freports are the gateways to privatising the UK. BlackRock will privatise Britain – our housing, education, health, nature and green energy – with our taxpayer money as sweetener. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 93 days ago • 118 comments

Academic analysis finds that mortgaged buy-to-let investors bought houses at a discount of 4.5% compared to other buyers in England and Wales in 2014-21. The discount was less in London, and fell when higher Stamp Duty for landlords was introduced in 2016. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

🚨⚠️NEXT TUESDAY, your MP will debate the Renters’ Rights Bill. Without protections against soaring rents and support for reporting bad landlords, renters will remain at risk of debt and homelessness. Write your MP and DEMAND they listen to renters 👇 generationrent.eaction.online/RRBReportstage

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Labour Mayor Steve Rotherham signed off with the Tories on the Liverpool SEZ and Freeport. Wirral council in crisis, it is looking to avoid issuing a Section 114 notice which is technically bankruptcy. It's like watching lemmings jump off a cliff. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts. UK prices 8% higher, housing cost 44% higher. Low income families - German families 21% or £2,300 a year better off; Dutch 39%. Yet no curbs on profiteering, exploitation institutionalized. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

There seem to have been a few new arrivals on Bluesky over the new year, so have updated my UK Housing starter pack to include those I've found with an interest in UK housing policy (now including the Housing Minister @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social). go.bsky.app/VA1DV9s

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

As the number of people who are homeless increases to shocking levels a reminder that we should be concerned about this every day not just at Christmas. It’s not just Christmas tale. @Shelter @natfednews @CIHhousing @insidehousing tommurtha.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/n...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments