Guy Parker
@guyparker.bsky.social
UK Housing Advocacy Manager at Habitat for Humanity GB; Board Member of GM Community-Led Homes and The Reign Collective
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Good sign that the Welsh crackdown on second homes is bearing fruit. The true test will be rents getting more affordable, homelessness cases dropping and fewer adults living with parents
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gwynedd house prices plunge as council acts on second homes
House prices in a Welsh county have fallen by more than 12% year-on-year, according to new figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Good sign that the Welsh crackdown on second homes is bearing fruit. The true test will be rents getting more affordable, homelessness cases dropping and fewer adults living with parents
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This approach to housing policy would finally start to address the housing crisis and homelessness and be politically effective too.
There's a tendency in centre-left politics atm to counterpose "deliverism" and narrative-based politics. But one without the other is a route to failure, not least with Reform UK breathing down Labour's neck. Here's a possible way out, centred on council
Housing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Housing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour's big Farage problem has a simple solution: build, build, build | John Harris
It’s not immigration or lack of services fuelling Reform UK’s impressive gains in the polls, but lack of housing. Huge investment is needed now, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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December 9, 2024 at 7:49 AM
This approach to housing policy would finally start to address the housing crisis and homelessness and be politically effective too.
This is a fascinating dataset: www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
Amongst home-owners and renters, UK has more rooms per person than almost anywhere.
Suggests type of home (and tenure) is a bigger challenge than the volume of housing.
Amongst home-owners and renters, UK has more rooms per person than almost anywhere.
Suggests type of home (and tenure) is a bigger challenge than the volume of housing.
December 6, 2024 at 11:36 AM
This is a fascinating dataset: www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
Amongst home-owners and renters, UK has more rooms per person than almost anywhere.
Suggests type of home (and tenure) is a bigger challenge than the volume of housing.
Amongst home-owners and renters, UK has more rooms per person than almost anywhere.
Suggests type of home (and tenure) is a bigger challenge than the volume of housing.
Lowlights from new homelessness stats:
- 16% increase in households in temporary accommodation (78,420 with kids)
- 308%(!!!) increase in people made homeless after leaving asylum accommodation
- 29% increase in numbers homeless after leaving prison or hospital
Emergency action needed now.
- 16% increase in households in temporary accommodation (78,420 with kids)
- 308%(!!!) increase in people made homeless after leaving asylum accommodation
- 29% increase in numbers homeless after leaving prison or hospital
Emergency action needed now.
November 28, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Lowlights from new homelessness stats:
- 16% increase in households in temporary accommodation (78,420 with kids)
- 308%(!!!) increase in people made homeless after leaving asylum accommodation
- 29% increase in numbers homeless after leaving prison or hospital
Emergency action needed now.
- 16% increase in households in temporary accommodation (78,420 with kids)
- 308%(!!!) increase in people made homeless after leaving asylum accommodation
- 29% increase in numbers homeless after leaving prison or hospital
Emergency action needed now.
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Is social housing NOT for "households on ordinary incomes for whom paying private rent is a struggle"? I thought that was exactly who social rent was intended for (alongside people unable to work). Most working age social tenants in London work.
Key Worker Living Rent homes are not an alternative for social rent, but are for households with ordinary incomes for whom paying private rent is a struggle.
The consultation runs until 3 March 2025 and is available here 👇🏻
www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
The consultation runs until 3 March 2025 and is available here 👇🏻
www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
Intermediate homes for London
Intermediate housing is one of the main forms of affordable homes built in London.
www.london.gov.uk
November 25, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Is social housing NOT for "households on ordinary incomes for whom paying private rent is a struggle"? I thought that was exactly who social rent was intended for (alongside people unable to work). Most working age social tenants in London work.
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We need to build 90,000 new social homes a year to meet govt housing targets and fix the housing crisis. But a land rule from the 1960s is blocking our ability to do this.
Today's new research in @insidehousing - and the government's response in 🧵
Today's new research in @insidehousing - and the government's response in 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 11:49 AM
We need to build 90,000 new social homes a year to meet govt housing targets and fix the housing crisis. But a land rule from the 1960s is blocking our ability to do this.
Today's new research in @insidehousing - and the government's response in 🧵
Today's new research in @insidehousing - and the government's response in 🧵
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New @neweconomics.bsky.social research out today shows that removing 'hope value' from the price councils have to pay for land could reduce the cost of building the 90,000 new social homes we need each year by a quarter, saving £4.5bn www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/scrappi...
Scrapping hope value would slash cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn, new report finds
A new report has found that scrapping hope value for landowners would slash the cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 8:49 AM
New @neweconomics.bsky.social research out today shows that removing 'hope value' from the price councils have to pay for land could reduce the cost of building the 90,000 new social homes we need each year by a quarter, saving £4.5bn www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/scrappi...
The greenest building is the one that already exists - equalising VAT on new builds, refurbs and conversions would help protect the planet and deliver more homes that local nimbys welcome
Construction is the world’s biggest polluter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it | Simon Jenkins
Construction is the world’s biggest polluter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it | Simon Jenkins
Refurbishing an old building is subject to full VAT, but it isn’t if you build a polluting new one. The government’s priorities are all wrong
You can damn oil companies, abuse cars, insult nimbys, kill cows, befoul art galleries. But you must never, ever…
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November 19, 2024 at 9:37 PM
The greenest building is the one that already exists - equalising VAT on new builds, refurbs and conversions would help protect the planet and deliver more homes that local nimbys welcome
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“One million homes are lying empty in England. Here's how we can fill them
Campaigners have urged the Labour government to draw up the first national empty homes strategy since 2016 to bolster attempts to deliver 1.5 million homes while in power”
##ukhousing
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
Campaigners have urged the Labour government to draw up the first national empty homes strategy since 2016 to bolster attempts to deliver 1.5 million homes while in power”
##ukhousing
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
One million homes are lying empty. Here's how we can fill them
There are around one million empty homes in England. With Labour facing an uphill task to build 1.5 million homes, here's how to fill them.
www.bigissue.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
“One million homes are lying empty in England. Here's how we can fill them
Campaigners have urged the Labour government to draw up the first national empty homes strategy since 2016 to bolster attempts to deliver 1.5 million homes while in power”
##ukhousing
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
Campaigners have urged the Labour government to draw up the first national empty homes strategy since 2016 to bolster attempts to deliver 1.5 million homes while in power”
##ukhousing
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
Exciting visit for GM Community Led Homes and Habitat for Humanity, looking at a site for possible new social homes, with design led by homelessness experienced people, and some authentic Manc features
November 15, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Exciting visit for GM Community Led Homes and Habitat for Humanity, looking at a site for possible new social homes, with design led by homelessness experienced people, and some authentic Manc features
This is the key stat for understanding the UK housing crisis...
One of the biggest shifts in housing policy over the past 50 years: we went from subsiding bricks and mortar, to subsidising landlords
November 15, 2024 at 8:49 AM
This is the key stat for understanding the UK housing crisis...
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No fault evictions have reached their HIGHEST levels since 2016!
Our warnings about the impact of Jeremy Hunt's Capital Gains Tax cut have proven true. More landlords are cashing in while evicting us! We need more protections ASAP.
Read more in our blog 👇
www.generationrent.org/2024/11/14/n...
Our warnings about the impact of Jeremy Hunt's Capital Gains Tax cut have proven true. More landlords are cashing in while evicting us! We need more protections ASAP.
Read more in our blog 👇
www.generationrent.org/2024/11/14/n...
No-fault eviction hits eight-year high following Capital Gains Tax cut - Generation Rent
Section 21 evictions are at their highest level since June 2016, with 8,425 households in England taken to court under the law between July and September, according to new figures […]
www.generationrent.org
November 20, 2024 at 7:02 PM
No fault evictions have reached their HIGHEST levels since 2016!
Our warnings about the impact of Jeremy Hunt's Capital Gains Tax cut have proven true. More landlords are cashing in while evicting us! We need more protections ASAP.
Read more in our blog 👇
www.generationrent.org/2024/11/14/n...
Our warnings about the impact of Jeremy Hunt's Capital Gains Tax cut have proven true. More landlords are cashing in while evicting us! We need more protections ASAP.
Read more in our blog 👇
www.generationrent.org/2024/11/14/n...
Council tax premium on 2nd homes due to come in next April can't come too soon - latest figures show 280k second homes in England: www.gov.uk/government/s...
It would take less than half of them to move every family in temporary accommodation into a permanent home
It would take less than half of them to move every family in temporary accommodation into a permanent home
November 14, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Council tax premium on 2nd homes due to come in next April can't come too soon - latest figures show 280k second homes in England: www.gov.uk/government/s...
It would take less than half of them to move every family in temporary accommodation into a permanent home
It would take less than half of them to move every family in temporary accommodation into a permanent home