https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/comment/how-much-time-80199

James Baldwin said,

“I was born here almost 60 years ago. I’m not going to live another 60 years. You always told me, ‘It takes time.’ It’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’ and my sisters’ time. How much time do you want for your progress?”

#JamesBaldwin #HowMuchTime? #SocialHousing #BritishProblems #EDI #TomMurtha #RaceEqualityWeek #AllTalkNoAction

Fascinating interview with Paul Boden, the #US homeless champion. Much of his account of how, from Reagan onwards, the assault on social housing and social security has produced a tidal wave of homelessness mirrors what happened in the #UK under Thatcher and successive Tory governments.
#Homelessness #SocialHousing #SocialSecurity #USPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/29/paul-boden-america-homelessness-crisis

"What good housing requires, as Vienna shows, is political vision and will. The real question is not: why shouldn’t working-class people own their own homes? It should rather be: why should we not all have proper, decent housing? That costs money, and higher taxation. But it is not nearly as utopian as many imagine."

Another good column from Kenan Malik on the decline of social housing in the #UK
Oh, Vienna!

#SocialHousing #Housing #Planning #CouncilEstates #Vienna

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/07/vision-of-property-owning-democracy-still-achievable-but-not-in-britain

Bavodorp, Haarlem
After period of demolish now it's time to finish. Soon this house will meet her new residents, new furniture, new everything but the base is 100 years old and beautiful!

#renovation #1920 #socialhousing #theNetherlands #LocoMotiefAdam

Aylesbury Estate

https://youtube.com/shorts/5N115eLruyA?feature=share

#brutalist #council #Socialhousing

Statistics released after an #FOI from the Scottish Liberal Democrats show 2,235 social homes are occupied by more people than they are intended to house.

This represents 7% of the 30,894 social homes which are managed under the Fife Housing Register

https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/23390743.fife-2-000-social-housing-homes-over-occupied-kingdom/

#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism #housing #overcrowding #OvercrowdedHomes #SocialHousing

More #FOIFriday stories: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/03/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-17-3-2023-foifriday/

"We could park all this at the door of a housing association that is too big to fail, yet is a serial failure. Its board features such establishment figures as Gavin Barwell, the housing minister just before Grenfell went up in flames, as well as big names who worked at Rothschild and Savills – but not one tenant. The chief executive of this charity, Clare Miller, took home over £369,000 last year"

#Renters #ClarionHomes #SocialHousing #Poverty

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/17/uk-housing-association-clarion-home-owners-renters

Do you want to learn more about how climate and the just transition impact #publicservice in #Wales?

Are you free from 11-12.30 today?

If you work in #NHS #Councils #SocialCare #ThirdSector #SocialHousing in #Cymru, my free #webinar is will help motivate you to act - tickets still available to book right now!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/425730871497

When policy is introduced, especially one with a deadline, it's worth sending an #FOI to find out how things went.

More than one in 10 council houses in Edinburgh is not fitted with legally required interlinked smoke alarms a year after the deadline.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/edinburgh-has-one-in-ten-council-houses-not-fitted-with-legally-required-smoke-alarms-4010340

#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism #SocialHousing #Homes

More #FOIFriday stories: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/01/freedom-of-information-in-the-news--week-ending-3-2-2023--foifriday/

At least 11,772 instances of damp and mould were reported in social housing in Scotland in 2021-22.

The number of complaints has increased by 18% since 2019-20, before the pandemic hit, according to #FOI figures.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23296233.call-concerted-action-social-housing-mould-complaints-soar/

#journalism #FreedomOfInformation #JournalismTips #InvestigativeJournalism #SocialHousing #Homes #Mould

More #FOIFriday stories: https://clairemiller.net/blog/2023/01/freedom-of-information-in-the-news--week-ending-3-2-2023--foifriday/

In a phrase which will never grow old, I blame Thatcher!!

https://england.shelter.org.uk/professional_resources/policy_and_research/policy_library/research_homelessness_in_england_2022

Lack of social housing means people living in unfit damp and infested accommodation which costs councils £100's.
Social housing should have been replaced when sold off- Councils would actually maintain some kind of standards.
#Housing #SocialHousing #GTTO #Renters #Reform

@daylightgambler Hi! Thanks for the follow! I have in-laws down in Taunton. A most excellent part of the country. #SocialHousing work sounds great. Have you been in Housing Online long?

RT @HistoryTown@twitter.com

A wintry Levita House. 1927 Grade 2 listed #OssulstonEstate is more beautiful in the snow. #LCC influenced by Modernist workers' housing in Vienna. #camdencouncil #socialhousing @MunicipalDreams@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HistoryTown/status/1602619474284347393

She met my dad at the AA School of Architecture in London, where she became hugely interested in #SocialHousing and influenced by Matrix- a group of #FeministDesigners. She went to get a Masters in Architectural Science, where she focused on ‘understanding how built environments fail to work for their occupants and what can be done to change this. She lectured in Calgary and Carleton University, until moving to consultancy work all while she had us three kids. /4

Just realizing that @JLGDC is here! Happy that #DCCouncil is in the house #SocialHousing #HousingJustice #GND

Just realizing that @JLGDC is here! Happy that #DCCouncil is in the house #SocialHousing #HousingJustice #GND

We should be measured by how we treat our most disadvantaged. Terrible conditions in #Socialhousing - imagine living with mould and damp, having nowhere you can go and watching your children get sick as a result.. it’s frighteningly common. #thenewsagents have the story.

https://overcast.fm/+7tuliIbfQ

When Michael Gove gets interviewed about the tragic case of the toddler who died from exposure to mould, please ask him to explain how he came to vote this 2016 bill down. He was among 72 MPs who did this. #r4today #socialhousing https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-vote-down-law-requiring-landlords-make-their-homes-fit-for-human-habitation-a6809691.html

#SocialHousing this is familiar to residents on the Cambridge Road Estate #Norbiton

#Regeneration rarely works out despite the promises

Less #GreenSpaces, more people, less community

Diese Bericht is vertraut für Einwohnern in #Kingston (SW #London)

Minder #GrueneRaum, mehr Leute und minder Gemeinschaft

Das Regeneration ist nicht für die originalen Einwohnern

https://islingtonnow.co.uk/residents-group-opposes-new-barnsbury-estate-rebuild-over-increased-density-and-lack-of-green-space/

Grrr. This phrase of “I do not accept that” has become the favourite get-out response of Tory politicians to facts being laid out in front of them. Can’t journalists anticipate this in advance of their interviews? #r4today #michaelgove #SocialHousing