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Jill Stewart
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Anything housing - learning, teaching, writing, presenting; housing and health; housing history; creative opportunities.

https://www.jillstewarthousing.co.uk/

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insidehousing.bsky.social
MPs call for Housing First to be expanded and an emergency meeting on temporary accommodation
MPs have called for Housing First to be expanded across the country and for an emergency meeting between councils and housing associations on temporary accommodation amid spiralling costs
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December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
housing-jill.bsky.social
Nick Hedges very kindly let us use some of his photos here, that he had taken locally in the Harlesden area. What an honour and what an amazing man:

municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/s...
June 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
1.3m households in England are on local authority housing waiting lists, the highest figure since 2014. About 164,000 children live in temporary accommodation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Paragraph stating 300,000 houses per annum need to be built, a figure last accounted in 1977 when half were built councils.
June 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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peteapps.bsky.social
I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future?

My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25

www.amazon.co.uk/Homesick-How...
May 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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peteapps.bsky.social
London boroughs have one officer for every 7,500 rental homes - leaving enforcement deserts “nothing will happen” if tenants complain about poor quality housing.

Research by me for The Londoner:

www.the-londoner.co.uk/why-is-londo...
Why is London’s rental housing so bad?
In cash-strapped councils, there's nobody left to enforce any standards, reports Peter Apps
www.the-londoner.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
housing-jill.bsky.social
I really enjoyed presenting and chairing at this great event
June 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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queensparkkaren.bsky.social
Combine under-investment in social housing with Right to Buy losses and you get..this.

No instant solutions-limiting future RTB, as government is doing, should help in longer term-but overall message clear: when low income households have no option but private renting, social security costs rise.
resolutionfoundation.org Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · May 16
Under-investment in social housing has meant many low-income households instead live in the private rental sector.

The result is less secure and lower-quality accommodation for tenants and higher costs for the state, which paid nearly £12 billion in housing support to private landlords in 2023-24.
Chart showing real cost of housing benefits, by tenure of recipient, 2024-25 prices: England more than a third of housing support in England, or nearly £12 billion, was paid by the state to private landlords in 202324. The cost to the state of subsidising rent paid to private sector landlords has risen by 64 per cent in real-terms since the mid-1990s, compared to a 54 per cent rise in the total cost of subsidising households living in social rental accommodation, which totalled just over £20 billion in 2023-24.
May 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social
Housing is a health issue. The private rental sector has the highest proportion of non decent housing. It is also the second biggest tenure. With poor, & patchy enforcement. This isn't a surprise. It is a direct consequence of successive Governments' policies.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Experts warn of health epidemic sparked by Britain’s housing crisis
Exclusive: Doctors and renters tell The Independent how housing issues are worsening health in Britain
www.independent.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
As we commemorate VE Day, we should remember the hopes and expectations of servicemen and women for a better, fairer country to emerge from the destruction of war. This is a poster created by and for British prisoners of war in the German prison camp, Stalag Luft III.
Poster advertising talk on County of London Plan created by British PoWs in German prison camp - shows slum housing and new high-rise flat block at rear
May 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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@municipaldreams.bsky.social Here’s a nice town hall for you in Porto!
May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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rcallway.bsky.social
Economists talk alot about the productivity puzzle but when we look at the physical and mental stress of living in poor quality insecure housing it is is not puzzling at all - Helen MacNamara via @sheltercharity.bsky.social @johnvanreenen.bsky.social
england.shelter.org.uk/professional...
March 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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rcallway.bsky.social
Opinion piece in @bmj.com on 'Health equity in housing: over-reliance on the private sector will not deliver healthy and affordable homes': www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Health equity in housing: over-reliance on the private sector will not deliver healthy and affordable homes
www.bmj.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
housing-jill.bsky.social
data.london.gov.uk/dataset/ics-...
Integrated Care Systems London Housing Profile – London Datastore
data.london.gov.uk
March 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
housing-jill.bsky.social
Working in a local authority PRS housing team and looking for courses?

Register your interest here for our popular May 2025 course:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-privat...

@pauloatt.bsky.social
The Private Rented Housing Sector: Effective Regulatory Strategy 2025
An interactive tour through private rented sector regulation taught by academics, legal and practitioner experts for local authority experts
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
Violet Buckle is the lady mayoress of Tower Hamlets in #CalltheMidwife. Read the amazing life story of Beatty Orwell, a real-life Tower Hamlets councillor of the era:
writersmosaic.org.uk/content/beat....
January 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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helenmew.bsky.social
How to do everything right by three children who are so extremely vulnerable they are in the care system (so the state as their “corporate parent” has parental responsibility) …

… and end up homeless, moving over and over from cheap hotel to hostel to sofa-surfing.
danielhewittitv.bsky.social Daniel Hewitt @danielhewittitv.bsky.social · Jan 15
Exclusive: Three children under the care of social services in Birmingham were left homeless for five months, my ITV News investigation has uncovered.

A “shocking” and “extreme” case of failure: the care crisis colliding with the housing crisis.

www.itv.com/news/2025-01...
www.itv.com
January 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
1/ 🧵In 1973, the Department of Environment published 'Children at Play' based on a survey of 16 housing areas: 'it is now widely accepted that children have a deep and urgent need to play'. Important observations and recommendations ensued. The report also contained interesting illustrations ...
Cover of pamphlet
January 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Did you see this @municipaldreams.bsky.social
miriambrett.bsky.social Miriam Brett @miriambrett.bsky.social · Jan 4
Shetland-based architect Richard Gibson passed away recently but he leaves a legacy of reimagining social housing in Shetland. If you’re interested in architecture and rural housing, this article was published a few months before he passed away.
Gimme shelter… how social housing in stormy Shetland was transformed by a modernist fleeing 60s London
Leaving forward-thinking Camden council in 1969 for the UK’s northernmost isles, the architect Richard Gibson built well-made homes for all in work that feels newly relevant…
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social
In 2024, 36% of UK children live in poverty, the highest since records began.

[Source : Guardian]
More than one in three children and a quarter of adults are living in poverty in the UK as deprivation levels rise to the highest in the 21st century, according to a landmark report. The study by the Social Metrics Commission (SMC), which uses measures recently adopted by the UK government, found the cost of living crisis had plunged 2 million more people into severe hardship since 2019. In total, more than 16 million people are defined as living in poverty, or 24% of the UK population – the highest since comparable records began in 2000. Children accounted for the biggest rise of any social group falling into poverty, the report found, with an extra 260,000 on the breadline since before the Covid pandemic, meaning a record 36%, or 5.2 million children, were in deprivation. It is likely to reignite calls for Labour to scrap the two-child benefit cap as, of those 5.2 million children, more than half (55%) lived in families with three or more children. About one in four of the children in poverty lived in a single-child household, with the same proportion in a two-child family. 36% of UK children live in poverty, the highest since records began
December 26, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Interested in Le Corbusier? A brief blog here: www.jillstewarthousing.co.uk/le-corbusier...
Le Corbusier: a life of genius?
With so much written about Le Corbusier, it’s hard to find a new angle. So this short post is simply to look at three of his buildings in France with some brief commentary on the importance of each in...
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December 22, 2024 at 8:19 AM
housing-jill.bsky.social
If you fancy a walk around some of Greenwich’s housing -
Including Hardy Cottages - you might like to try out housing walking tour:

geotourist.com/tours/7475/E...
December 18, 2024 at 4:33 PM
housing-jill.bsky.social
Lovely walk today looking a Greenwich’s amazing range housing across all tenures, including LCC housing
@municipaldreams.bsky.social @lccmunicipal.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Writing is thinking.

It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
annaeclark.bsky.social Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · Dec 11
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
jaxwendy.bsky.social Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Dec 11
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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thetcpa.bsky.social
In 2021, 1 in 5 children in England were living in overcrowded, unaffordable or unsuitable homes.
Adopting Healthy Homes Principles could help embed health promotion as an overarching aim through the entire housebuilding process
www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/raising-the-healthiest-generation-in-history/
December 5, 2024 at 2:35 PM
housing-jill.bsky.social
Want to learn more about #housingandhealth, terminology and deficiencies? Our new booklets are available here:
www.jillstewarthousing.co.uk/new-booklets...

@pauloatt.bsky.social
New Booklets: Building Technology and Deficiencies
This post is to share two new resources created by Paul Oatt and myself and sponsored by JMW Solicitors. These plug a real gap in resources available to housing practitioners and we hope that you wil...
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December 5, 2024 at 3:50 PM