Questions on Labour’s housing policy
The housing content of the National Policy Forum document is supposed to “shape the Labour Party’s policy agenda”. The draft document it has produced, will be discussed by NPF members and, amended by them, will go to a “Clause 5” meeting on which the NEC, CLPs and affiliates sit, together with the Shadow Cabinet. That…
The contradictions of Labour’s housing policy
There are no market solutions to the housing crisis At last year’s conference Keir Starmer said that Labour is “the Party of Home Ownership”. It would support first time buyers with “a mortgage guarantee scheme”. At the same conference Lisa Nandy said Labour’s mantra was “council housing, council housing, council housing” and it would commit…
Thatcher – the Right to Buy
Richard Harries was working at an advice point when he came across this story which he recounts in his poem below. Two brothers living together in council housing, next door to each other have different fates as a result of the one deciding to buy and the other not. Richard had been to University in…
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