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They’re either dressing up in military uniforms or cosplaying builders. Don’t they have real jobs to go to?

David Madden’s article on social reproduction and housing is particularly striking and it’s open access.

A stark reminder that the housing crisis is about NEED (a secure and safe roof over everyone’s head). It isn’t about the home ownership dream or second homes or investment properties. But politicians never care about NEED. Excellent book by KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner

Join Lesnes Estate residents to fight against the demolition of their homes at Bexley Civic Offices on the 30th of April. Meeting at 6.30pm, bring your signs and banners! #lesnesestate #saveourhomes

Yes

Housing justice movements of the world unite

Bloomberg (£) “Britain’s key housing target is at the mercy of wary house builders.” Of course. Always was, always will be. The idea, now shamefully promulgated by the OBR, that making planning easier will increase supply is economic fiction. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

It’s always the least likely.

We are nine months into a 60-month period during which Labour has promised 1.5m homes. The Redrow Barratt merger has brought £100m in savings from closing nine offices. Trading numbers show no sign of surge. The firm is looking after business, not attending to political wishes.

Watch out for your eggs.

The people of Thanet are sick of seeing good agricultural land covered in unaffordable houses that are not for locals #FoodSecurity

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A column of Komsomol women at the May Day parade in Leningrad. USSR, 1926

Shock! A planning designation that prohibits development reduces construction rates! Who would have thought it.

Green Belt “is what makes this Country so Beautiful and keeps our Wildlife safe and Birds Returning. […] they need our support alongside farmers who need the land to farm and feed” A petition to sign🍀 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7243…

Is it fair that shared owners pay charges for services they don’t benefit from and/or have no right to use (e.g. concierge in the private (non-social housing) side of the development)? And are they legally obliged to pay such charges? More info via link. gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-s…

Planning and Infrastructure Bill provisions for trashing nature & enriching housing developers are outrageous. But they're not the only things wrong with the Bill, as the betterplanningcoalition reminds us. tinyurl.com/9es4tjfp

This is why housing is not affordable. It has nothing to do with local planning restrictions.