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Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. If you’re looking for a chink of light ahead of the promised government strategy on homelessness, the number of homeless households living in bed …| 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. Within the next few months the government will set out what it intends to do about homelessness and how it will pay for it. A new report argues that the prospect of the homelessness strategy and spending review present it with ‘a vital opportunity to shift away […]| 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. If anyone needs any reminding, two new reports reveal the depth and breadth of the crisis in temporary accommodation in England. On Thursday the all-party Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee published the results of its inquiry into the ‘utterly shameful’ situation in a report that spells out […]| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Just for a change, housing looks like one of the winners from the Spring Statement – but is everything quite what it seems? On housebuilding overa…| 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. 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
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
