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The blame game

Poor places are not responsible for their own poverty and nor do the people who live there cause their own stigmatisation, argues Stephen Crossley
“Certain milieus gather reputations for moral inferiority, squalor, violence, and social pathology, and consequently they objectify the...

Time to act

We must give communities a voice on housing, writes Sarah Jones MP
In the last edition of the Fabian Review, Steve Hilditch wrote a convincing analysis of the housing crisis and Labour housing policy. One line in particular stands out after...

The right to a decent home

Elections used to be won and lost on housing. From 1918 when Lloyd George promised homes fit for heroes to 1945, when the Labour manifesto proclaimed that housing was ‘one of the greatest and one of the earliest tests of...

Homelessness: a co-operative solution

With the Co-Operative party celebrating its centenary this year, Wayne Simmons looks at how co-operative approaches can be employed to address a social injustice close to his heart: homelessness.
It’s Christmas Day, 1998, and I’m surrounded by Belfast’s homeless. The first...

Radical solutions

With the government’s delayed housing white paper expected any day, it is opportune for progressives to review the alternative options to the approach being pursued by the current government. While the new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, has indicated a shift...

Let us build

Council housing was once a force for good in our communities - and it can be again
 

I grew up in council housing in south London in the 1960s and 70s. I will always be grateful to Southwark Council for providing...

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