We have a severe housing crisis. Reforms to planning policy - that effectively relax local housing targets - are making a bad situation even worse.

It doesn’t have to be this way, but we need a bold new approach. We need a long term #PlanForHousing 🏡 thetimes.co.uk/article/counci…

Yay it’s local elections day! I love voting 🗳

Many thanks to all the #localgov returning officers and their teams for today’s voting, counting and the declarations to come.

#YourVoteMatters #LE24

It's shameful that we have more families homeless and in temporary accommodation than ever before.

New Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities data shows 145,800 children living in temp accommodation.

It doesn’t have to be like this. We need a long term #PlanForHousing 🏡

Important The News Agents investigation by Lewis Goodall

Record numbers of children are homeless - disrupting education, affecting life chances & putting huge pressure on families

The next government must end this scandal. We need a #PlanForHousing that ends child homelessness

Great to see Rachel Reeves and Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹 visiting whg

Building more #SocialHomes is a win-win. It will benefit families, boost the construction industry and save the government and taxpayer money over the longer term.

We need a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏡

Great to be in Cambridge at the NHF’s East of England Leaders Forum talking about all things social housing & our general election campaign

Thanks to everyone who came to the event for joining us in  calling on all political parties to commit to a long-term  #PlanForHousing 🏡

Super geeky post alert 🚨

I was just walking down a corridor in the House of Lords looking at the books & what did I see…? My book co-written with the wonderful Katy Lock & Dr Hugh Ellis

So cool there’s a copy of The Art of Building a Garden City in the Lords Library 🤓📚

Pleased to have signed this letter in the Financial Times by the Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury

We need to end short-termism and piecemeal policy solutions to fix the housing crisis. We need a shared vision, we need a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏘️

Letter 🔗 ft.com/content/5ef89b…

A big thank you to g320 - London's Smaller Housing Associations members - a diverse and wonderful group of small housing associations across London - for supporting our campaign calling on all political parties to commit to a long-term  #PlanForHousing 🏡

Good Big Issue article about #HousingCrisis covering:

🏘 National Housing Federation analysis of social housing waiting lists across the country

🗣 our campaign calling on all political parties to commit to a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏡

🔗 Link to our digital campaign toolkit

See below 👀⬇️

Good to see these proposals, particularly the focus on affordable homes.

Building on brownfield land alone will not deliver enough homes to fix the housing crisis, so it’s right to consider how our approach to the green belt can better serve our country and our communities.

Building on brownfield land alone will not deliver enough homes to fix the housing crisis, so it’s right to consider how our approach to the green belt can better serve our country & our communities

This should form part of a strategic & properly funded long-term #PlanForHousing

Research shows we’re not on track to meet demand for #SupportedHousing by 2040 meaning more people will be at risk of homelessness, face longer stays in residential or institutional care & have longer hospital stays

That’s why we need a #PlanForHousing that leaves no one behind

Glorious spring morning in Cornwall 😂

It was great to catch-up with Sir Michael Lyons and fellow commissioners to discuss what the next government can learn from the Lyons Housing Review.

Thanks Martin Hilditch for bringing us back together and Katharine Swindells for the Inside Housing report. insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-ly….

Excellence piece in The Times and The Sunday Times about Peabody

The housing crisis can be solved and done in a way that will save the taxpayer money, boost jobs and bring huge benefits to the wider economy.

We need a long term #PlanForHousing 🏡 thetimes.co.uk/article/he-bui…

Our country’s housing crisis has been decades in the making, but it doesn’t have to be like this.

Ahead of the general election please join us in  calling on all political parties to commit to a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏡

Great to see Rt Hon Lord Kennedy 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇦 and members of the Heart of Medway Board showing their support for a long term #PlanForHousing to end the #HousingCrisis

Many thanks Ashley Hook and mhs homes for supporting the National Housing Federation campaign 🏡

#PlanForHousing #GeneralElection #ukhousing

It was a privilege to give the opening speech at our event on #Equality , #Diversity and #Inclusion in #ukhousing

Huge thanks to Victor da Cunha for chairing and to everyone attending - such a valuable opportunity for sharing challenges and ideas, learning and collaborating.

We have a severe housing crisis.

We warned that these reforms to planning policy - that effectively relax local housing targets - would risk making a bad situation even worse.

We can fix the housing crisis but we need a bold new approach, we need a #PlanForHousing