Ed Miliband pledges crackdown on rogue landlords cashing in on housing shortage

Ed Miliband has pledged to crackdown on rogue landlords cashing in on the housing shortage during his first major speech of 2013.During the speech to the Fabian Society, he said it is wrong to have a nation divided between those who own homes and those who do not.He also admitted that the last Labour government did not do enough for ordinary people.New Labour was 'too timid in enforcing rights

Elected to Vice Chair of APPG Housing Group

I have been elected to the vice chair of the important APPG of the Housing Group. I hope in my time we can shift the debate from predominently Social Housing to the more work on the impact of Private Rented Sector



On that note new chair of the APPG for Housing, Annette Brook MP, has recently tabled EDM 815 which urges the Government to require lettings agents to be members of a

Government housing & economic policies failing

The Tory-led Government’s policies were exposed today as official figures revealed that affordable house building in the last 12 months has collapsed by 57% in the North West. The figures from the Government’s Homes and Communities Agency show that affordable housing starts fell nationally from 51,373 in 2010/2011 to just 17,709 in 2011/2012.

These figures demonstrate the disastrous impact of

Gesture politics of Grant Shapps - RTB - yet another housing mirage.

Jack Dromey, Labour’s Shadow Housing Minister
recently stated that “If we had a home for every press statement issued by
Grant Shapps we wouldn’t have a housing crisis”. This sounds like a simple
criticism of a career politician who just wants to put out good news about his
department, but there is something more profound about this comment.



The latest press release from the ever-positive