Awaab’s Law will be extended to temporary accommodation, the homelessness minister has announced.| Inside Housing
An extra £30 million has been confirmed for the Winter Pressures Funding this year.| GOV.UK
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Angela Rayner is a huge loss for the Labour government and the country but arguably an even bigger loss for housing. The housing secretary had to go after the standards advisor ruled that she breached the ministerial code by underpaying the stamp duty on her new flat, […]| Jules Birch
Posts about Housing associations written by julesbirch| Jules Birch
Originally written as a blog for Inside Housing. How long can you keep juggling before it all goes horribly wrong? That’s the question for social landlords posed by a new report from the all-party&…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. A year into the Labour government how should we assess its record on housing? It’s not hard to find reasons to celebrate, from the spen…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. The spending review may have given us the headlines but a flurry of announcements on Wednesday fills in much of the detail about what the governme…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. This spending review represents a good start on housing – but it must only be a start. Highlights of the package delivered by chancellor Rachael Reeves on Wednesday included £39 billion over 10 years for the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) and a 10-year rent settlement of CPI plus 1 […]| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. With a week to go until the most consequential spending review for ten years, the Treasury is facing desperate last-ditch lobbying from department…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Housing seems such a natural engine of inequality that it’s easy to forget that the opposite was once true. For most of the 20th centur…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. What’s not to like about the prospect of ‘the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation’? The promise often repeated by Angel…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. An intriguing Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHLCG) response to a select committee report on Friday might just provide a g…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. No more sticking plaster politics was the promise from Labour at the general election seven months ago. The 126,000 homeless families and 164,000 …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. After a relentless week of grim international news, it’s good to have something to celebrate on the domestic and housing front. Until the sp…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Think of all the elements of the grim inheritance bequeathed to this government by the last one and perhaps the grimmest is the almost 160,000 chi…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. What’s in a target? Angela Rayner faced questions at the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee this week and gave some ill…| Jules Birch
Posts about Temporary accommodation written by julesbirch| Jules Birch
Writer and editor, mostly about housing and social policy. Blogger at Inside Housing. Ageing footballer| Jules Birch