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History and public policy. Housing and land.
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Do the Councillors take into account that refurbishing flats results in far lower #greenhousegas emissions than demolishing and rebuilding?
#Dublin #housing @dublininquirer.com
#Dublin #housing @dublininquirer.com
A puzzle: how to modernise a listed flats complex without reducing the number of homes in it. The Department of Housing has vetoed the council’s designs for the Herbert Simms-designed Pearse House in the south inner-city. dublininquirer.com/2...
A puzzle: how to modernise a listed flats complex without reducing the number of homes in it - Dublin Inquirer
The Department of Housing has vetoed the council’s designs for the Herbert Simms-designed Pearse House in the south inner-city.
dublininquirer.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Do the Councillors take into account that refurbishing flats results in far lower #greenhousegas emissions than demolishing and rebuilding?
#Dublin #housing @dublininquirer.com
#Dublin #housing @dublininquirer.com
Because this woman says that she would be happy for an agency to send a male carer to wash her intimate parts or change her incontinence pads then disabled women should not have the right to choose the sex of the person providing such intimate care…
Are you aiming to push for selection of anyone who touches you on other grounds? Do you you want to specify sexual orientation and ethnicity or faith?
Women & children are most at risk in their own homes, followed by other people's homes. There a rapidly growing problem with drug spiking. [cont]
Women & children are most at risk in their own homes, followed by other people's homes. There a rapidly growing problem with drug spiking. [cont]
April 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Because this woman says that she would be happy for an agency to send a male carer to wash her intimate parts or change her incontinence pads then disabled women should not have the right to choose the sex of the person providing such intimate care…
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Trans people do indeed deserve to live in dignity, but so do women. What needs to happen after this ruling is for men to start "being kind" & welcome their gender nonconforming brothers into their spaces without fear. That's all. Then both women & transwomen can be respected.
I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?
Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.
April 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Trans people do indeed deserve to live in dignity, but so do women. What needs to happen after this ruling is for men to start "being kind" & welcome their gender nonconforming brothers into their spaces without fear. That's all. Then both women & transwomen can be respected.
What a relief. Long overdue. Well done to all the brave women involved.
Supreme Court decision on definition of 'woman' has immediate real-world consequences
Supreme Court decision on definition of 'woman' has immediate real-world consequences
For years there has been a toxic, emotion-driven debate over gender and sex in this country. Today came clarity.
news.sky.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
What a relief. Long overdue. Well done to all the brave women involved.
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A 1930 woodblock print by Kawase Hasui depicting the Nikko Kaido (left), and a photo I took when I walked the Nikko Kaido in October 2014 (right).
February 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A 1930 woodblock print by Kawase Hasui depicting the Nikko Kaido (left), and a photo I took when I walked the Nikko Kaido in October 2014 (right).
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Municipal guide of the day: an early 1980s London Borough of Bromley effort, including the former Beckenham Town Hall, since demolished to make way for an M&S food hall!
February 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Municipal guide of the day: an early 1980s London Borough of Bromley effort, including the former Beckenham Town Hall, since demolished to make way for an M&S food hall!
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Absolute perfection. A completely unique voice. Fragile and strong. Not leaning on a single jazz, blues or gospel mannerism or cliché. The enunciation of firsT Time is just sublime, as is the composition, the arrangement, the whole thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW-...
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic
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February 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Absolute perfection. A completely unique voice. Fragile and strong. Not leaning on a single jazz, blues or gospel mannerism or cliché. The enunciation of firsT Time is just sublime, as is the composition, the arrangement, the whole thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW-...
Has Twitter gone down? It has for me…
February 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Has Twitter gone down? It has for me…
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Today @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
releases a deep dive into Progressive Activists, the most liberal/left leaning segment of the public. It looks at who this highly engaged group are, what they believe but also why their approach maybe leading to backlash against progressive causes.
releases a deep dive into Progressive Activists, the most liberal/left leaning segment of the public. It looks at who this highly engaged group are, what they believe but also why their approach maybe leading to backlash against progressive causes.
February 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
releases a deep dive into Progressive Activists, the most liberal/left leaning segment of the public. It looks at who this highly engaged group are, what they believe but also why their approach maybe leading to backlash against progressive causes.
releases a deep dive into Progressive Activists, the most liberal/left leaning segment of the public. It looks at who this highly engaged group are, what they believe but also why their approach maybe leading to backlash against progressive causes.
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February temperatures have been fairly frosty, which means continued high spending for those on pre-payment meters.
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
February temperatures have been fairly frosty, which means continued high spending for those on pre-payment meters.
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
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We hear a lot about the costs of Temporary Accommodation crippling councils financially - but less about why this is.
- Central Government is benefiting financially from households being in homeless accommodation rather than the PRS, because they pay just *90% of the LHA rate from 20211*
- Central Government is benefiting financially from households being in homeless accommodation rather than the PRS, because they pay just *90% of the LHA rate from 20211*
December 9, 2024 at 11:09 AM
We hear a lot about the costs of Temporary Accommodation crippling councils financially - but less about why this is.
- Central Government is benefiting financially from households being in homeless accommodation rather than the PRS, because they pay just *90% of the LHA rate from 20211*
- Central Government is benefiting financially from households being in homeless accommodation rather than the PRS, because they pay just *90% of the LHA rate from 20211*
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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‘curb regulator overreach”. Most of us know what that kind of zealotry has led to: the financial crash of 2008, the Grenfell Tower disaster and a country full of sewage-strewn rivers’.
I am dismayed by Labours current tone. Especially on the environment.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am dismayed by Labours current tone. Especially on the environment.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s dislike of real politics is plain to see. It’s why his government has no direction | John Harris
In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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February 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
‘curb regulator overreach”. Most of us know what that kind of zealotry has led to: the financial crash of 2008, the Grenfell Tower disaster and a country full of sewage-strewn rivers’.
I am dismayed by Labours current tone. Especially on the environment.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am dismayed by Labours current tone. Especially on the environment.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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#OnThisDay in London housing history: Family Squatting Campaign occupies 4 houses in Ilford, East London 1969. Often seen as the moment of rebirth for modern squatting in the UK
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Today in London housing history: Family Squatting Campaign occupies 4 houses in Ilford, 1969
The main impetus for the 1968-69 squatting campaign, which kick-started the late twentieth century London squatting movement, came from a loosely-knit group of radicals, many of whom had been invol…
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February 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#OnThisDay in London housing history: Family Squatting Campaign occupies 4 houses in Ilford, East London 1969. Often seen as the moment of rebirth for modern squatting in the UK
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925,000 UK children will be plunged into poverty.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
Labour's housing benefit freeze leaves 1m children at risk of poverty
Labour's decision to freeze local housing allowance rates will leave almost one million children in households hit by housing benefit cut.
www.bigissue.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
925,000 UK children will be plunged into poverty.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates.
What will families go without?
Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering.
Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.
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Ah yes, it must be working from home that’s the problem.
February 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ah yes, it must be working from home that’s the problem.
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🚨 Nearly 2 in 3 disabled people said they had to make cutbacks on food & other essentials to afford housing.
Every disabled person should have an accessible, affordable home - home they can carry with them throughout their lives and that will support them to thrive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every disabled person should have an accessible, affordable home - home they can carry with them throughout their lives and that will support them to thrive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Disabled people share experience of accessible homes in London
Abbi Brown said although her home has been adapted for wheelchair access, problems remain.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🚨 Nearly 2 in 3 disabled people said they had to make cutbacks on food & other essentials to afford housing.
Every disabled person should have an accessible, affordable home - home they can carry with them throughout their lives and that will support them to thrive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every disabled person should have an accessible, affordable home - home they can carry with them throughout their lives and that will support them to thrive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tomorrow at 10:45am IFS Associate Director David Phillips will be giving evidence to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee on whether the local government finance system in England is fit for purpose.
Find out more here: committees.parliament.uk/event/23320/...
Find out more here: committees.parliament.uk/event/23320/...
11 February 2025 - The Funding and Sustainability of Local Government Finance - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
09:30 - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
committees.parliament.uk
February 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Tomorrow at 10:45am IFS Associate Director David Phillips will be giving evidence to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee on whether the local government finance system in England is fit for purpose.
Find out more here: committees.parliament.uk/event/23320/...
Find out more here: committees.parliament.uk/event/23320/...
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any economists here that can help me understand why the world's richest man might want to kill the consumer financial protection bureau
February 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
any economists here that can help me understand why the world's richest man might want to kill the consumer financial protection bureau
From a nation of shop-keepers to a nation of shoplifters…
Crime stats show that shoplifting and theft-from-the-person in the capital have risen every year since the pandemic, though the pattern isn't wholly uniform: www.onlondon.co.uk/londons-rece...
London's recent rises in crimes of theft - some three-year patterns and trends - OnLondon
In July 2021, I went to Marble Arch in order to ascend the newly-opened Marble Arch Mound, Westminster Council’s well-intended but disastrous attempt to draw visitors back to a West End that had been ...
www.onlondon.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
From a nation of shop-keepers to a nation of shoplifters…
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Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support
Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support
Exclusive: Poll reveals 72% of UK voters favour ban on zero-hours contracts, including majority of Tory and Reform supporters
Labour should fight Conservative and Reform criticism of a major expansion in workers’ rights because of an “indisputable…
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February 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support
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Must read
on Trump, women's rights, transgenderism.
"Legally defining men and women biologically does not in itself guarantee progress for women."
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
on Trump, women's rights, transgenderism.
"Legally defining men and women biologically does not in itself guarantee progress for women."
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
www.filia.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Must read
on Trump, women's rights, transgenderism.
"Legally defining men and women biologically does not in itself guarantee progress for women."
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
on Trump, women's rights, transgenderism.
"Legally defining men and women biologically does not in itself guarantee progress for women."
www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
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"The financialisation of housing is a major driver of the fivefold increase in prices since the 1980s. You cannot simultaneously ensure that housing remains a lucrative investment and that everyone is well housed – yet this is what the government seeks to do."
#HousingFirst
#AffordableHousing
#HousingFirst
#AffordableHousing
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"The financialisation of housing is a major driver of the fivefold increase in prices since the 1980s. You cannot simultaneously ensure that housing remains a lucrative investment and that everyone is well housed – yet this is what the government seeks to do."
#HousingFirst
#AffordableHousing
#HousingFirst
#AffordableHousing
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"I’m happy for female athletes but needing Trump to sweep out gender ideology is like having to bulldoze your house to get rid of dry rot.
He'll be so destructive - to Ukrainians, to Palestinians, to Americans..& the left allowed this..by denying reality"
www.thetimes.com/article/8af2...
He'll be so destructive - to Ukrainians, to Palestinians, to Americans..& the left allowed this..by denying reality"
www.thetimes.com/article/8af2...
Men are not women — at last the US is united
Whether it’s gender ideology or grooming gangs, denying reality never works
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"I’m happy for female athletes but needing Trump to sweep out gender ideology is like having to bulldoze your house to get rid of dry rot.
He'll be so destructive - to Ukrainians, to Palestinians, to Americans..& the left allowed this..by denying reality"
www.thetimes.com/article/8af2...
He'll be so destructive - to Ukrainians, to Palestinians, to Americans..& the left allowed this..by denying reality"
www.thetimes.com/article/8af2...
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HMP Millsike a new human warehouse has been opened, to be run by the private contractors Mitie.
Regulate or it is a race to the bottom, ever poorer services with increasing costs . That's how contractors profit & economies crumble
www.vice.com/en/article/r...
Regulate or it is a race to the bottom, ever poorer services with increasing costs . That's how contractors profit & economies crumble
www.vice.com/en/article/r...
Revealed: The Government Outsourced a Scandal-Hit Kids' Jail to a Struggling Company
Medway Secure Training Centre had previously been taken back into government control after it was hit by controversy.
www.vice.com
December 25, 2024 at 1:54 PM
HMP Millsike a new human warehouse has been opened, to be run by the private contractors Mitie.
Regulate or it is a race to the bottom, ever poorer services with increasing costs . That's how contractors profit & economies crumble
www.vice.com/en/article/r...
Regulate or it is a race to the bottom, ever poorer services with increasing costs . That's how contractors profit & economies crumble
www.vice.com/en/article/r...