To contextualise the underspend, £1.9bn would get you around: 19,000 socially rented homes 633 high rises with dangerous cladding remediated 3,800 social housing blocks retrofitted with sprinklers theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

In which I try to find answers beyond the inevitable “house prices” for the blandification of London.

Sell-out discourse through the ages

My curated list of homes in Open House Festival which starts today standard.co.uk/homesandproper…

An area guide to Finsbury Park by local MP (of 40 years) Jeremy Corbyn written by Emma Magnus standard.co.uk/homesandproper…

As Labour sets out plans to head back to Gordon Brown-era housing policy, here's a reminder of what Gordon Brown-era ministers said about their own record at the last party conference:

I’ve solved how to get people back in the office. Pay them enough to live comfortably within 30 minutes’ commute/all businesses and bosses take an active interest in solving the housing crisis standard.co.uk/homesandproper…

For the last month, I’ve been following a Home Office centre for disabled asylum seekers. There are security guards but no care staff. Some residents are paraplegic but don’t have wheelchairs. One woman begs strangers for food. In tomorrow’s The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The latest from my very brilliant friend ⁦Ruth Evans⁩ - part of the team who broke the Westwood story. No (alleged) predator is safe bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Mortgage on 350k at 2%: £1484 a month and total payment £445,126. Mortgage on £350k at 5.5%: £2149 and total £644,745. To get payment back to £1484, you can only borrow £243k (total payment 447k). And that's why house prices are falling... More here. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Private renting is worse for your health than smoking so why don’t we spend on housing? ✍️Prudence Ivey bit.ly/3tsyX7V

Most foreign correspondents for major media outlets - myself included - have the luxury of being able to leave an assignment when things get too dangerous. Every photo + video in our news media from Gaza this week is taken by someone who cannot escape. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

You laugh… till you cry

Starting an informal Homes & Property housing exchange in the hopes that someone will sell me their nice home… standard.co.uk/homesandproper…

✍️Prudence Ivey: Sellers who refuse to budge on the price of substandard homes need to get real. bit.ly/3SAQyFd

A 90-year-old housebound pensioner is convicted of not keeping up with his car insurance. He doesn't have email, struggles to walk, can't write anymore & cares for a wife with dementia In our flawed, secretive, fast-track justice system, this kind of prosecution keeps happening

✍️ Prudence Ivey: The quality-of-life bores have conceded that there is more to existence than a home office and a big garden Read more: standard.co.uk/homesandproper…

✍️ Prudence Ivey: 'Lowering our expectations of house price growth is no bad thing' bit.ly/3RTPg68

24,000 people waking up and thinking ‘oops’, apparently