This special publication about the #HealthyHomes campaign reflects on the fight for better housing standards and shares key leaders thoughts about where the housing sector needs to be in ten years time.
Read the campaign story here:
www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/ca...
Health begins at home.
For 8 years, the Campaign for Healthy Homes has aimed to transform how the built environment is regulated to ensure that new homes promote the health of their residents.
Our new booklet shares the Campaign story & looks ahead to the future of housing: shorturl.at/TgQ1F
To mark #InternationalWomensDay2026 here's a blogpost I wrote five years ago about the under-representation of women in the key sources that we use for our family history research...
lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2021/03/08/w...
2/ The Role of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee: ‘Homes Fit for Heroines’
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we have the same, Victorias. Might also be known as Jubilee. Delicious
Nick Hedges very kindly let us use some of his photos here, that he had taken locally in the Harlesden area. What an honour and what an amazing man:
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Paragraph stating 300,000 houses per annum need to be built, a figure last accounted in 1977 when half were built councils.
1.3m households in England are on local authority housing waiting lists, the highest figure since 2014. About 164,000 children live in temporary accommodation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future?
My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25
www.amazon.co.uk/Homesick-How...
London boroughs have one officer for every 7,500 rental homes - leaving enforcement deserts “nothing will happen” if tenants complain about poor quality housing.
Research by me for The Londoner:
www.the-londoner.co.uk/why-is-londo...
I really enjoyed presenting and chairing at this great event
I’ve been there! Lovely isn’t it?
Combine under-investment in social housing with Right to Buy losses and you get..this.
No instant solutions-limiting future RTB, as government is doing, should help in longer term-but overall message clear: when low income households have no option but private renting, social security costs rise.
Housing is a health issue. The private rental sector has the highest proportion of non decent housing. It is also the second biggest tenure. With poor, & patchy enforcement. This isn't a surprise. It is a direct consequence of successive Governments' policies.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Poster advertising talk on County of London Plan created by British PoWs in German prison camp - shows slum housing and new high-rise flat block at rear
As we commemorate VE Day, we should remember the hopes and expectations of servicemen and women for a better, fairer country to emerge from the destruction of war. This is a poster created by and for British prisoners of war in the German prison camp, Stalag Luft III.
At a conference talking about housing! Porto is beautiful
@municipaldreams.bsky.social Here’s a nice town hall for you in Porto!
Just saw this message here. Was elsewhere for the other one!
Whilst you’re there, have you been to the Rex to see a film?
Economists talk alot about the productivity puzzle but when we look at the physical and mental stress of living in poor quality insecure housing it is is not puzzling at all - Helen MacNamara via @sheltercharity.bsky.social @johnvanreenen.bsky.social
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Opinion piece in @bmj.com on 'Health equity in housing: over-reliance on the private sector will not deliver healthy and affordable homes': www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Working in a local authority PRS housing team and looking for courses?
Register your interest here for our popular May 2025 course:
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Violet Buckle is the lady mayoress of Tower Hamlets in #CalltheMidwife. Read the amazing life story of Beatty Orwell, a real-life Tower Hamlets councillor of the era:
writersmosaic.org.uk/content/beat....
How to do everything right by three children who are so extremely vulnerable they are in the care system (so the state as their “corporate parent” has parental responsibility) …
… and end up homeless, moving over and over from cheap hotel to hostel to sofa-surfing.
Cover of pamphlet
1/ 🧵In 1973, the Department of Environment published 'Children at Play' based on a survey of 16 housing areas: 'it is now widely accepted that children have a deep and urgent need to play'. Important observations and recommendations ensued. The report also contained interesting illustrations ...
Yes indeed and @efrogwraig.bsky.social you may also be interested in this:
www.jillstewarthousing.co.uk/inspectors-o...
Did you see this @municipaldreams.bsky.social
More than one in three children and a quarter of adults are living in poverty in the UK as deprivation levels rise to the highest in the 21st century, according to a landmark report. The study by the Social Metrics Commission (SMC), which uses measures recently adopted by the UK government, found the cost of living crisis had plunged 2 million more people into severe hardship since 2019. In total, more than 16 million people are defined as living in poverty, or 24% of the UK population – the highest since comparable records began in 2000. Children accounted for the biggest rise of any social group falling into poverty, the report found, with an extra 260,000 on the breadline since before the Covid pandemic, meaning a record 36%, or 5.2 million children, were in deprivation. It is likely to reignite calls for Labour to scrap the two-child benefit cap as, of those 5.2 million children, more than half (55%) lived in families with three or more children. About one in four of the children in poverty lived in a single-child household, with the same proportion in a two-child family. 36% of UK children live in poverty, the highest since records began
In 2024, 36% of UK children live in poverty, the highest since records began.
[Source : Guardian]
I’m guessing Bevin Court - it’s lovely
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