📖 NEW ARTICLE | How we talk about homes matters

With the local elections around the corner, how can those advocating for solutions to the housing crisis best frame their arguments?

Natalie Tate lays out Joseph Rowntree Foundation's 'Talking about Housing' toolkit:

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Some reasons to elect a Labour majority in the London Assembly this Thursday, from Sem Moema 🌹🐝💪🏾 on redbrick

🏡 Tackle the crisis in temporary accommodation
🧱 Build and buy more housing stock
🏦 Fight for more Government funding for housing

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📖NEW ARTICLE | Labour’s London Assembly achievements

Sem Moema 🌹🐝💪🏾 outlines Labour's GLA achievements, from delivering the Affordable Homes Programme to campaigning on the Local Housing Allowance, and what Labour would do with a London Assembly majority

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A smarter approach to the release of green belt land is essential to building the homes our country needs.

Labour will prioritise the development of low-quality ‘grey belt’ sites and impose ‘golden rules’ to ensure it always meets local housing need.
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📺Did you miss our event with Dr Tom Archer (CRESR SHU)? Not to worry! Watch the event video for an insightful road map into how the next Labour Government could deliver 1.5 million homes

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'We must stop assuming that all young people have a ‘bank of mum and dad’ to act as a harness, or that living in shared houses is safe and suitable for all'

Crucial reading on redbrick from Phil Kerry New Horizon Youth Centre)

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📖 NEW BLOG: From promises to delivery – making Labour’s housing goals a reality

Speaking at Labour Housing Group's AGM, Toby Lloyd presented on how a future Labour government might make use of the tools at their disposal to achieve their housing goals.

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Some good housing announcements in Labour’s local elections launch including:
📖 A “blitz” of planning reform in the first few weeks in office
✍️ 300 extra much-needed planning officers
🏠 Fast-track approval for high density housing on brownfield

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Local elections are on 2 May, and housing will be at the top of the agenda in many places.

If you are:
🙋‍♀️Standing for election
🗣️ Advocating for better local housing
🏠 Interested in housing issues in your area

Then write a piece for Red Brick! Send us a DM for more info:

🏘️ How can social housing tenants be empowered in their communities?

🧱 Find out more in this new redbrick piece from Andy Bates!

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NEW BLOG 📖 A Tenants' Manifesto | Andy Bates

Andy Bates writes on the need to empower social housing tenants to have their voice heard, and the potential of tenants to take control of the management of their housing.

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Wiltshire Council is one of many now looking to take advantage of the government’s reckless decision to abolish mandatory housing targets.

The Tories have consciously and deliberately torpedoed housing supply in England.

A Labour government will get Britain building again.

📖 NEW BLOG: If Life is a Ladder, We are Letting 136,000 Young People Per Year Fall

Phil Kerry (New Horizon Youth Centre) writes about the need to end financial discrimination and provide suitable homes for young people experiencing homelessness.

#PlanForThe136k

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If Life is a Ladder... 🪜A privilege to write for redbrick about the multiple barriers that young people face getting housing, and how our #PlanForThe136k campaign can solve youth homelessness for good.
Read below👇sign the petition & spread the word! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6429…

📖 NEW BLOG: If Life is a Ladder, We are Letting 136,000 Young People Per Year Fall

Phil Kerry (New Horizon Youth Centre) writes about the need to end financial discrimination and provide suitable homes for young people experiencing homelessness.

#PlanForThe136k

redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/03/life-l…

Building more social housing will be key to ending the housing crisis.

Our recent blog on tackling temporary accommodation calls for 90,000 social homes to be built per year.

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This pledge will go a long way to achieving this goal