Tag Archives: council housing

Panorama on social housing

By , Thursday, 5 May 2011, 4 Comments

In case you missed it, the BBC’s Panorama investigated the problems caused by the decline in social housing last night..

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BBC4 on social housing

By , Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 22 Comments

The ever brilliant BBC4 ran a nice little documentary last night on the history of social housing…

The documentary covers familiar and well-trodden stuff (slums, homes fit for heroes, welfare state, new towns, high rise, Ronan Point, high rise backlash, Thatcher, right to buy etc) but for housing nerds such as myself it was an interesting way to spend an hour.

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Pushed to the margins?

By , Tuesday, 5 October 2010, 13 Comments

A piece in today’s Guardian argues that benefit reforms announced yesterday by chancellor George Osborne could see London become more like Paris, and not in a good way…

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Learning from past mistakes

By , Thursday, 3 June 2010, 1 Comment

A lot has been written about the failure of the 1950s and 60s housing experiment but there’s nothing like a gritty 1970s documentary to bring it alive…

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Government admits failure, sort of

By , Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 4 Comments

The government is building council houses again so is this an admission that thirty years of housing policy has failed?

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Weighing up the facts

By , Thursday, 26 November 2009, 1 Comment

The tabloids have jumped on the story today of a morbidly obese man getting a new £300,000 home designed to meet his ‘unique’ needs.

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How did we get into such a mess?

By , Monday, 14 September 2009, Be the first to comment

HousingHow the hell did this happen? Read more »

Racist myth exposed

By , Friday, 3 July 2009, 5 Comments

National Housing Federation statistics have exposed the old racist line ‘they come over here and take our houses’ as the myth it is.

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