Social Housing Posts
Reposting UK social housing related articles, news and posts in one place. RT’s & posts not endorsements.
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- Latest piece for The Big Issue "Providing carpets in social housing won't be mandatory. It fails to meet basic standards of decency" www.bigissue.com/opinion/carp...
- “The housing estate that Blair forgot In 1997, Tony Blair visited the Aylesbury estate in south London to promise its residents they would no longer be ‘forgotten people’. Three decades later, many are still waiting for things to get better” observer.co.uk/culture/arch...
- Decent Homes Standard: Mandatory Floor Coverings Dropped fromthemiddleground.substack.com/p/decent-hom...
- “Councils named and shamed over damp and mould in social housing” www.landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking-new...
- “Mum waiting 16 years for home move taken to hospital as council warned 'it's on you if she dies'” www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
- “Reading council slammed as target for affordable homes missed – with just 11 delivered in a year” rdg.today/reading-coun...
- “The Regulator of Social Housing has issued orders to remove two officers from the committee of Allnutt Mill Housing Co-operative Limited.” www.gov.uk/government/n...
- “Lambeth Council threatened with High Court action by ICO after withholding information from resident” www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
- “Claridge’s Ealing towers approved after GLA lowers affordable homes quota” www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/claridg...
- “‘Requires improvement': Government inspectors reveal just 40 per cent of Wolverhampton council homes inspected in past five years” www.expressandstar.com/news/local-h...
- Disappointing. Additionally, it’s also the issue of the condition of the floor when a new tenant moves in. I wrote about this subject last year fromthemiddleground.substack.com/p/carpet-pov...
- “Decent Homes Standard: Government drops plan for mandatory floor coverings following concern from sector The government has chosen not to include various measures, including mandatory floor coverings, in its revamped Decent Homes Standard.” www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/decent-...
- “Decent Homes Standard: Government drops plan for mandatory floor coverings following concern from sector The government has chosen not to include various measures, including mandatory floor coverings, in its revamped Decent Homes Standard.” www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/decent-...
- “Birmingham City Council has rung the changes among contractors maintaining its housing stock, lining up a new trio to take over long-term repairs and upkeep across the city. “ www.constructionenquirer.com/2026/01/28/b...
- “Costs blunder and bad contractor choices - London council damning in assessment of its own housing delivery Kensington and Chelsea Council said some of the issues with its delivery of new homes "could have been better anticipated" www.mylondon.news/news/west-lo...
- Latest Substack Forgotten Spaces: The Decline Of Communal Areas fromthemiddleground.substack.com/p/forgotten-...
- “Hackney residents come armed with projector to take over public meeting on estate's regeneration” www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...
- “Domestic abusers 'using housing loophole to control victims' stuck in joint tenancies Hackney Council says social landlords need more powers to evict abusers who may be exploiting joint tenancy rules to keep control over survivors even after they flee” www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...
- “In Somerset, I found glorious proof that the UK can build great council houses. So what is holding us back?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- “A disabled man who had to spend a night in hospital because the lifts to his council flat were broken says he now "dreads" finding them shut down again.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
- “London council housing scandal probe 'points to mass-scale organised fraud and 'criminality at its highest end'” “Police say ‘hundreds’ of Barking and Dagenham Council-owned homes could have been fraudlently let” www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
- “Homes on Lambeth ‘regeneration’ estates lie empty for a year and a half on average as 40,000 await housing” “Some properties remained empty for far longer, with one home in Cressingham Gardens remaining empty for 33 years.” www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/01/home...
- “London council asks for 'exceptional support' from Government so it can pay for housing repairs” www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
- “Six arrested in £300m social housing fraud probe” www.bbc.com/news/article...
- “Tenants who say they are living in hot homes say they could become the first to take legal action against their housing association over excessive heat.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- “An £80m South London housing scheme is moving a step closer after developers switched the project to 100% social rent, unlocking fresh funding support.” www.constructionenquirer.com/2026/01/08/8...
- “Social landlords are set to be given powers to remove domestic abusers from tenancy agreements, making it easier for some abuse survivors to stay in their homes.” www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
- Great to see Middle Ground added to the shelves of the Nuffield College Library at the University of Oxford. Joined by the brilliant book Municipal Dreams by John Boughton, who kindly wrote an endorsement for my book.
- Latest Substack behindthetools.substack.com/p/door-and-w...
- “Social housing tenants in North London say they have been waiting six years for the council to repair their windows in a saga that has left them “freezing”.” harrowonline.org/2026/01/05/s...
- "East London council tenant shivering during cold snap amid pre-paid meter dispute Neil Jones says he is washing in stone cold water as temperatures plummet but feared the council would trap him with an 'unaffordable' pre-paid meter" www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...
- “Growing numbers of over-60s facing homelessness, charities warn Housing crisis reaches UK’s oldest generations as high private rents and lack of social housing hits pensioners” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- “Hundreds of Blackpool families to be evicted in ‘mass dispersion’ of vulnerable people Up to 400 homes face demolition under a £90m regeneration scheme that promises only 230 replacement properties” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- “Britain went from a country where working people could live independently, with money left over to live their lives, to one where a caravan might be the last affordable form of shelter. Explore how this happened.” www.thecommonburden.co.uk/when-britain...
- “Failures by social housing landlords continue even with Awaab’s Law” www.property118.com/failures-by-...
- “When it’s developers v people, usually the money wins. I saw how one community came out on top A social housing victory at the ‘luxury’ Battersea power station development shows the power of grassroots politics – and holds a lesson for all of our cities” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- “100s of Islington housing complaints buried due to glitch - separate issue saw asbestos checks delayed” www.mylondon.news/news/north-l...
- “'Reckless' Westminster council accused of wasting £27m on doomed building firm” www.lbc.co.uk/article/reck...
- “Shetland temporary housing residents in Burgh Road, Lerwick, claim SIC failed to respond to safety concerns” www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/news/petitio...
- “More than half (52%) of teachers in England have worked at a school with children who are homeless in the past year.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
- 'We've been rehoused but the lifts, fire alarms and security doors are broken' www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
- “Council house evictions on the rise in Southampton” www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2569385...
- “Stratford Halo blocks evacuated after 'cracking' discovered” www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/2569019...
- “Rent will go up for thousands of council house tenants in Swansea” www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
- “Council housing complaints surge” www.landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking-new...
- “People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- “‘Even Dickens would be lost for words’: inside the supported housing scandal Loophole in letting of ‘SEA’ accommodation to vulnerable adults sees providers profit from the public purse” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
- “Hundreds of Barbican residents told they can wash at gym as 5 blocks hit by water failure” www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
- “Council votes to increase tenants rent by 9.5% and scrap 'free week' The latest rise follows an increase last December, when the council upped rent charges by 7.5%.” news.stv.tv/north/aberde...
- “Quintain Living: rent hikes, evictions and soaring energy bills rife at 3,600-home Wembley scheme say tenants” www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
