🙏Thank you very much for the really warm welcome at the Light Project - getting insights from guests and staff was really helpful and will be influential in Housing Justice campaigning and development work. Hope to visit again some day😀 and we will feedback our findings soon💙

Calling #ukhousing #research folks. We’re commissioning a rapid review of #London #LocalGovernment approaches to #TemporaryAccommodation to inform campaigns and advocacy. Deadline 16 June. Please retweet and tag relevant folks. Thanks!

Sad milestone reached in #England : the number of #homeless families being housed by councils in hotels and B&Bs for longer than the legal limit is at its highest in 20 years… apple.news/AcGdBjQEtTNeHe…

NEW: Rough sleeping has risen in England for the first time since 2017. Number estimated to be sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2022 is 3061. That’s:

⬆️ 26% from 2021

⬇️ 35% from 2017.

⬆️ 74% from 2010.

The A-Team help form a militant farm workers union. Most based episode in the history of television.

Instead regulation moved to the Homes and Communities Agency, who had a remit to look at governance and financial viability. A key focus was ensuring the sector was attractive to private finance - basically a reassurance to lenders that they would not lose money

When it was scrapped, Professor Martin Cave, the academic who had led the review which led to its creation warned the move “will leave tenants and groups of tenants without the protection they need against incompetent landlords”

The TSA was a fledgling organisation set up under Gordon Brown to provide some regulation of the social housing sector's performance with regard to housing standards, in response to concerns that there was limited oversight in this area.

In 2010 when the Conservatives took office, they enacted a 'bonfire of the QUANGOs', where a bunch of government agencies were scrapped over night. This included the Tenant Services Authority (TSA) which housing minister Grant Shapps memorably branded 'toast'

Is there a better illustration of the gaping chasm between rhetoric and reality.

19th July 2022. East London, UK. Just four months ago.

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Designs by people with lived experience of homelessness, the artists receive 50% of the profits. Barons Court Project, which I lead, use the remainder to help more people off the streets.
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Now in 1966, to the minute, 116 children & 28 adults were buried alive in a primary school in Aberfan, S Wales as a collapsing colliery slag heap caused a massive landslide. The teacher David Beynon was found, braced against his blackboard, with five little children in his arms

Boris Johnson will make an intervention on Saturday’s Telegraph.

The selection process to find the next Labour candidate for Lincoln has just opened and I'm proud to say that I'll be putting myself forward. I'm honoured to be backed by so many dedicated local campaigners and most of Lincoln's hardworking Labour councillors.

Jeremy Hunt may delay the vital care cap reform, which would have helped protect people affected by dementia from catastrophic care costs.

Join Vicky McClure MBE to call on MPs and sign our open letter, and make dementia the priority it needs to be: alzheimers.org.uk/openletter

This is the full list votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/…

Neither did Theresa May, Priti Patel or Wendy Morton who was, until ten minutes ago, the chief whip.

40 Tories didn't vote with the Government on fracking. Including Kwasi Kwarteng.

We’re now at a place where no u-turn means no credibility. And in the final analysis no politician (and certainly no major party) facing this situation can take that gamble. So the central case? U-turn coming