Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes 26/7/24 Northern Echo: 50k homes empty in NE especially Middlesbrough, Durham & Gateshead. Shelter & Crisis have published dedicated reports on bringing empties into use to house the homeless who will never get the mass house-builder Green Belt spec homes. thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24476811.…

Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes 30/4/24 Negotiator: Public wants UK’s 1.55m derelict & empty homes revived. In 2023, Census & Local Authority data showed £532bn of homes were empty & abandoned in England & Wales (not 2nd homes etc). Westminster has 36k, Cornwall 28k & Birmingham 26k. thenegotiator.co.uk/news/uk-housin…

Just visited a family in Lambeth 📍 🚨- Lambeth Council have been paying a private landlord to house an 82 year old with advanced prostate and blood cancer in these conditions:

'It'll be the city skyline: 5 towers, 2,388 flats.. none affordable A £300million development with mahjong room and dog spa 'In Renaker’s case a deal has been struck with Manchester council to pay £37,180 through section 106..' Wrong deal #TheWrongHousing manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

Insightful article by BHESCo on the impacts of the broken private rental sector in the #UK and what to do about it bhesco.co.uk/blog/rental-ho… Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes The Labour Party

'The market currently empowers landlords to charge high rents in exchange for appalling standards of housing.This desperate situation is exacerbated by a gap in legislation and incentives to improve the quality of existing housing for tenants' Time to meet the #RetrofitChallenge

'confused with someone who gives a damn': Unofficial motto of the companies, institutions and individuals who helped bring about the disaster? A culture going beyond Grenfell to water companies dumping sewage in rivers, flawed responses to Covid, the PostOffice Horizon scandal..'

Council calls for Right to Buy suspension after losing half of social homes 'housing chief, Cllr MacAlister, said in the current climate it makes "no sense" to build more social homes when they become available to buy with up to a 70% discount of £102,400'manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

So was I, it was the first thing I noticed. Shameful.

#Grenfell 'cladding manufacturer “deliberately concealed” fire risks, while coalition and Conservative governments “ignored, delayed or disregarded” concerns, the final report concluded. Grenfell United said: "Human life was never a priority..." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

All those MP’s that left before the Prime Minister address the Grenfell Phase 2 report are shameless. What was more important than hearing reaction to the biggest residential disaster/failure in modern history, and those responsible being named? Getting lunch? Getting to the

I’ve woken up still angry and saw the reaction/response from Grenfell residents which is devastating considering all they are going through and have been through over the last few years. The fact governments were slammed in the report, by default, should’ve meant MPs were

Latest census showed vacancy at 8% in London and over 25% in Kensington & Chelsea.. Linda Roland Danil wants to know about how shortage of suitable housing in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea impacts the elderly and disabled.. Wealth storage and non-residential use of housing drives London's housing crisis..

So perhaps - I dunno - going on Sky News and saying "however good your system is and however well-intentioned it is, and however hard people work, they're going to make mistakes" might be seen as pretty bloody disrepectful in this context.

I mean, it is true that in good systems people make mistakes, Tony. But it's also irrelevant. Because we did not have a good system, we had a dysfunctional one - and it was one you helped to build. If you're going to say anything, maybe start with sorry (ends).

“There's a national issue with London Boroughs discharging homelessness duties by relocating households.. 'decanting' people considered 'high cost' from the South to cash strapped NE authorities is the devastating ideological progression of seeing people in financial terms only”

Ah christ, I can't even begin with this one, but I do feel the need to say that the paragraph below is demonstrably and very clearly total bullshit. The report quite firmly found the opposite