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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.  A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.  To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.  🧵 Here’s why.

“This problem raises the question of whether we need a wholesale change in how we commission, fund and build new homes”. Exactly. Decades of relying almost exclusively on private developers & private finance have brought us to this place.

Nonsense. There is an eviction ground specifically for a landlord to move them/their family back in, which was included in the Act specifically to enable people to let out their properties in these situations.

From the Financial Times. Whoops “Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be ordered to repay more than £38,000 in rent after admitting breaching housing rules by unlawfully renting out her family home without a licence. Southwark council, which runs the borough where Reeves rented out the home,

“A raft of leading economists and thinkers from around the world are supporting a Green Planning Commission being launched today by the Common Wealth thinktank.” theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Common Wealth' s Green Planning Commission launches today! Delighted to join the project as a Commissioner.

'Greater Essex' is anti-Anglian imperialism.

Exclusive: Six Labour MPs who were suspended over two-child benefit limit demand 'cruel policy scrapped in full' in letter to Rachel Reeves mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Cheerful news of the day is the launch of the Green Planning Commission. A welcome corrective to muddled climate thinking with an all star team

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“A major focus for Common Wealth is building out a left response to the affordability crisis—one that isn’t just recapitulating the price-lowering strategy of neoliberalism.” Our newly-launched Green Planning Commission covered in The American Prospect 👇 prospect.org/2025/10/31/how…

Did not have Michael Palin public housing defender on my list for today. standard.co.uk/news/london/si…

Fairly sure, if the money were found, national government could have instead opted to help fund councils to buy these homes.

Latest stats show "affordable rent" more than £60 a week higher than social rent; £90 in London. "Affordable rent" was introduced by the Tories as part of their austerity programme. The government should END it. All funding should go to social rent homes. thelabourcampaignforcouncilhousing.org/2025/10/31/the…

DfT rules out buying out rolling stock from private ROSCOs. It also says that it will be closely involved with future rolling stock deals which suggests that GBR will be arm’s length with very short arms.

These are presently going for $150 on eBay.

ouch, again

🚨 NEW: Read Tobita Chow’s “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation. transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-warmi…

Read Tobita Chow tobitac.bsky.social’s brilliant exposition of how the new Cold War is an existential climate threat — the latest in our geopolitics series Transition Security Project. 👇👇👇

Housing will be decommodified 👀