Thanks @housingsector for this excellent piece on the flawed economic model for delivering public housing:

'the long-term sustainability of relying heavily on property sales remains questionable. The risk of being unable to offload properties quickly or at desired prices looms…

Housing activists have occupied the front of London's City Hall to demand that Peabody refurbishes, rather than demolishes, the Lesnes Estate.

JEWISH GIRL SPITTING FACTS

This afternoon, the Earl of Lytton will be debating amendments concerning service charge reform, ending insurance bad practice and the introduction of a Building Trustee to ensure all tenures of flat ownership (leasehold, enfranchisement and commonhold) work for all.

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Good to see these PQs from Rushanara Ali 💙 asking about effectiveness of Regulator's intervention in Tower Hamlets Community Housing. THCH's decline began with original 'downgrade' a decade ago. Its service is worse now. Tenants must be fully involved in any decision on its future.

The reporting on post #Grenfell remediations is shocking (long post A-Z #BuildingSafetyCrisis

A) they (@govuk + enforcement agencies) didn’t know how many blocks total or exposed - why do we all pay land register fees?

B) they have finessed the building height thresholds over…

The annual insurance premium for the building had risen from around £10,000 to £310,000. Because of unremediated, flammable cladding.

It shows what a mess the Michael Gove and Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities have made of their legislation.

metro.co.uk/2024/04/28/lon…

New approach to fixing the #BuildingSafetyCrisis from the Earl of Lytton now tabled in the Lords.

Legal clauses : bills.parliament.uk/publications/5…

1) Protects ALL leaseholders backed by funding from the construction industry.

2) Fix the flawed developer remediation contracts to cover…

In the aftermath of horror, we need political leaders with the ability to facilitate de-escalation and peace. Instead, their thirst for war is endangering us all.

My piece for the The Guardian.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

According to #Zionist groups like ADL, protests against the genocide in Gaza are #antisemitic , and this anti-Zionist #Jewish woman from Brisbane, Australia is also antisemitic. Is this another 'boy who cried wolf' story?

This is why they call it a “windfucker”. This kestrel was hunting over Richmond Park yesterday. Floating serenely in one spot for minutes at a time, watching the ground below, then diving at speed to catch prey. It didn’t catch anything yesterday.

Upcoming amendments from the Earl of Lytton to bring consumer protection for blocks of flats with the buildingsafetyscheme.org

But also new amendments to end leasehold abuse and make commonhold work in practice. TrustHold will be tabled shortly in the House of Lords.

Breaking: The merger between Poplar Harca and Tower Hamlets Community Housing is off the table.

Let's ensure our housing associations remain local, serving our communities directly.

Local housing, local control! #TowerHamlets

People might blame the legal system for how this case has turned out

But the fact is I have only taken 14.9k people with me on Twitter and even less in the real world

Like the PO the system has only done what it thought it would get away with ( so far it has been proved right)

Professor Norman Finklestein mic drop #1038930
“What does me being a self hating Jew got to do with the FACTS”? 💥🔻

Breaking news - huge thanks to Swansea Council Cladiators Geoff & Rob for telling their story & Sharp End team. More tonight 1045 on ITV Wales News. Cllr Sam Bennett 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 The Labour Party End Our Cladding Scandal #BuildingSafetyCrisis Dan Bruce Harry Scoffin Building Safety Scheme (LFRB) Carolyn Harris MP

Decoding the deceptive 'weasel words' offered by the US Government: news.sky.com/story/julian-a…

Just heard from another social tenant being required to pay an eye-watering service charge - £59 a week. This includes 'communal repairs', 'entry phone maintenance' + 'sewers & drains' too! We have made a formal complaint but there must be a way of challenging it for all tenants?