Council housing | Jules Birch
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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
Posts about National Audit Office written by julesbirch| Jules Birch
A bit about politics, quite a bit about social policy, a lot about housing| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Achievements may be thin on the ground but, six months into her job as housing and planning minister, Rachel Maclean does at least seem to have gr…| 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. 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. Labour’s huge election victory is undoubtedly good news for housing but will it take this once-in-a-generation chance to prove that ‘change’ is mo…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Given a backdrop of grim economic times and successive election defeats, this was always going to be a cautious Labour manifesto. So the good news…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. What should we be aiming for in housing policy? Read just about any government’s green or white paper published over the last 30 years and the ans…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. The prospects for housing investment look bleak whoever wins the election – and that is looking on the bright side – but there was an interesting …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. The good news in Jeremy Hunt’s speech is that the government has finally listened to all the arguments about soaring rents, evictions and homeless…| Jules Birch
