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As one MP put it, we welcome the steps forward in ministerial statements on building safety only to find problems in the steps backward that follow. Michael Gove’s plans to ‘make developers pay’ re…| 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. 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
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. What would our politics look like if housing really were the most important issue in a general election? After a week that’s seen the Labour gover…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. A final verdict will have to wait for the spending review in the Spring but how should we assess the first Labour Budget for 14 years? The answer …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing The last day of term is traditionally a time when nothing much happens and we get set for the holidays to come. Not so much for Angela Rayner. The …| Jules Birch
Writer and editor, mostly about housing and social policy. Blogger at Inside Housing. Ageing footballer| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. It’s all change for housing at Westminster after a stunning election victory for Labour. More than half of the MPs who will be sworn in this week …| 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. The focus of the election finally turned to housing today (Thursday) but blink and you may have missed it. The issue described as ‘the dog that ha…| 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 Wounded by the D Day furore and badly behind in the polls, the Conservatives have retreated to their home ownership comfort zone in their elec…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Everything everywhere all at once’ is how Michael Gove describes the welter of proposals on housing announced this week and under consideration fo…| Jules Birch
Originally published as a column for Inside Housing. There is no chance of the government achieving its target of 300,000 new homes by the mid-2020s so why has the drama ramped up within the Conser…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Where to start with the government’s new ‘long-term plan for housing’ presented by Rishi Sunak. If the opinion polls and by-election results are a…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. The good news is that the King’s Speech does promise a Leasehold and Freehold Bill. The less good is that this is not yet the end, and maybe not t…| Jules Birch
