There is a housing crisis in the UK,which has various components. There is clearly a need to provide adequate temporary accommodation to all those who need it. At present local authorities only have a duty to accommodate those considered to be in ‘priority need’, which usually means they have dependent children, are fleeing violence or who have significant disabilities or health problem. As if being homeless wasn’t priority enough ! Beyond the agreed need to provide adequate ‘ emergency’ accommodation there is a need to substantially increase the supply of ‘ social housing’, provided by local councils and housing associations, and offering relatively secure tenancies at reasonable rents. The significant decline in the quantity of social housing since Thatcher’s Right to Buy legislation in the 1980’s has meant that more and more people, including families with young children, have to rent from private landlords, with no security of tenure and little protection from poo...
I had known about yesterday’s event at Westminster Hall having received requests from the Zero Hour campaign to contact my MP to attend .My MP is Jon Pearce who recently gave up his role as Chair of Labour Friends of Israel to become a Private Parliamentary Secretary to Keir Starmer )He responded to my request by saying be would if he could. I have no idea whether he did. All Parliamentarians were invited to attend the event and no list has yet been published of those who did. Zack was on Radio 4 yesterday evening ( Thursday) and made (very)brief reference to being at the event, having been invited as a London Assembly Member. I assume our 4 MPs were there. Brothers Simon and Nick Oldridge , described on the events website as ‘climate funders and communicators, with a background in business’ set up the event, which was supported by a range of organisations, including the National Trust, the RSPB and the National Education Union. The purpose of the event was to p...
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