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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
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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. 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. 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. 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 Few readers of Inside Housing will find the new podcast series The Trapped a comfortable listen but it is a necessary one. You’d hope that politici…| Jules Birch
A forensic examination of the government’s building safety programme lays bare the scale of the task facing ministers when they set out further steps on remediation of unsafe homes shortly. O…| 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. Amid the excitement of the first Labour King’s Speech in 15 years, it may seem churlish to inject a note of scepticism. The excitement lies …| 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. Eight weeks after Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng shrank the economy with their growth plan, chancellor Jeremy Hunt completed his reversal of almost …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Following his surprise decision to stand down as MP, Michael Gove leaves Westminster as probably the most important politician for housing in the …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing The economic inheritance of the next government will be so dire that it’s hard to avoid thinking that the prospects for housing investment will be …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. It was meant to be a ‘housing moment’ that would make a home ownership-based pitch to younger voters. That was the line briefed repeatedly to the …| 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 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
