🚨 There are 261,000 long-term empty homes in England.

Meanwhile, we desperately need more social homes.

While nowhere near enough by itself to end the housing emergency, converting empty homes into social homes would help kickstart the delivery of homes we desperately need. 🧵

500 renters are given a section 21 no-fault eviction every day.

Genuine change is desperately needed. Yet thanks to self-interested landlord MPs this version of the #RentersReformBill will fail to protect them.

Our warning as part of the Renters' Reform Coalition 👇🏾

What's causing homelessness?

Look between... YEARS OF SUCCESSIVE UNDERFUNDING OF SOCIAL HOME BUILDING AND A LACK OF PROTECTION FOR RENTERS

#LookBetween #BuildSocialHomes

'The Bill isn’t fit for purpose, it must be strengthened for the benefit of renters.'

Shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook MP earlier outlined The Labour Party's view on the #RentersReformBill

Every party must stand up and make this Bill deliver the promise of a 'fairer deal for renters'

Members across the house have taken note of our position today.

Tenants groups across the sector will not accept this version of the #RentersReformBill . It will not change the lives of the people we represent.

It's time to listen to renters and give it an serious overhaul.

sleep tight dear Mama ✨

thank you for teaching us how to love unconditionally, to always show courage and empathy, and how, even in the darkest of days, laughter is the greatest of gifts.

we are bereft without you but will hold so tight to each other ❤️✨

It won't save you.
You're still toast.

Happy 460th birthday William Shakespeare 🎉

Remembering the great playwright William Shakespeare who died on this day in 1616. He was probably born on this day as well in 1564. #WilliamShakespeare #Hamlet #Macbeth #TwelfthNight #AMidsummersNightDream #TheTempest #RomeoAndJuliet #KingLear #Othello #RichardIII #HenryV

I've always admired Trevor Howard so I'm pleased to finally get reading this biography. Very interesting. #TrevorHoward

Music incredibly powerful - it was the only connection I had with my late husband James - when I played his Mozart I got a response 🥲

Had a nice self care day today doing a bit of goal setting which included being a Helen Mirren clone at 60 😂 However my mental health advice to myself needed writing in big letters!!

In honour of the great man's birthday, here's the incomparable Peter Ustinov telling Parky a tale about his army days.

First cuckoo of the spring

There are many reasons not to vote Conservative - #LizTruss is one of them.

14 avril 1942. Paris. 27 résistants communistes face à leurs juges allemands. Lui dirigeait l'action armée. Un ouvrier, syndicaliste, père de 2 enfants. 'Vous pouvez nous tuer, lance-t-il, d'autres se lèveront et nous gagnerons la guerre !' Yves Kermen est fusillé le 17. 31 ans.

Lay off Gene Hackman. He’s a film legend, and in his 90s. 💖

9 in 10 older people support the creation of a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing - do you?

Want your problems heard, experiences valued and your voice championed? Join our calls for a #VoiceForLaterLife in England and Scotland: independentage.org/campaigning/co…

The picturesque medieval village of Lavenham, Suffolk, in the 1950s.

Happy birthday to the Blue Peter legend Valerie Singleton who was born on this day in Hitchin in 1937. #ValSingleton #Hitchin #BluePeter

We have a great tradition of producing great art, films, theatre and television in this country, so why cut something that gives so much richness? theguardian.com/education/2024…