use our grey power to force real affordable, safe houses to be built whoch won't kill our planet but actually save it!!

A council has come under fire after it bought two houses for £1.2million two decades after selling them for £190,000. Brighton and Hove City Council described the purchase as ‘good value’ and plans to turn them into 15 flats for temporary accommodation.

David Gibson, councillor for the Green party in the Labour-led administration, said: ‘In Brighton and Hove we are drastically short of providing the amount of truly affordable rents and social housing the city needs.

Instead of keeping existing homes and building more, Labour and Conservative governments sold off homes through the disastrous ‘right to buy’ scheme for years.

The Labour council is now in a position of having to spend £1.2 million buying back a property it originally sold off for £190,000. ‘The loss made on buying back this home shows the flaws in flogging off our housing stock.’

metro.co.uk/2018/04/02/council-sold-houses-190k-buys-back-1200000-7434009/

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/24/london-social-housing-sell-off-protest-luxury-hotel

No wonder there are so many homeless in London, if social housing is being sold off like this.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/grenfell-the-most-risk-exposed-project-in-the-world/

skwawkbox.org/2018/03/22/grenfell-campaigners-to-protest-today-to-stop-councillors-voting-themselves-6m-extra-legal-budget/

This is wrong, too. The figures are shocking. They need six million extra to protect themselves from not having spent five thousand on the cladding.

This is just wrong. It's not the residents fault that the wrong cladding was used.

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/13/tower-residents-croydon-replace-grenfell-style-cladding-tribunal
The government should pay for it.

It was their chief fire officer who said it was safe to use on the buildings.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/07/labour-says-ministers-made-false-claims-about-cladding-after-grenfell

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/09/grenfell-tower-uk-may-have-breached-human-rights-says-un

The government won't take any notice of this. It never has over any other breach of human rights.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/labour-steps-up-against-government-over-grenfell/

May blamed councils for not enough houses being built.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/report-warns-10-of-councils-close-to-bankruptcy-over-funding-shortfalls/

Difficult if they are close to bankruptcy.

Up to the survivors to decide, by democratic means, but can't they have both?

How should we remember the victims of Grenfell Tower - by building a memorial on the site or by building better housing?

www.dezeen.com/2018/03/02/grenfell-tower-fire-memorial-architecture-london-news-uk/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20560&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20560+CID_f6697b91f68e8f3ffcfd14ea4e8ff74a&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Read%20more

Greed.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/05/theresa-may-cake-housebuilding-planning-policy

Housebuilders putting up the prices.

And what made them so unaffordable ?

I saw an interestng list a couple of days ago - but can't remember where - showing that many of those who have manual jobs now earn more than those with degrees.
I also read today that in Manchester not a single affordable home was built in the last two years.

Like you say, Deedaa, there's a mismatch somewhere.

DD and her husband are finally selling the one bedroom flat that four of them live in and buying a three bedroom house. They both have degrees and the sort of good jobs that are supposed to make a degree worth paying for. I realised today that it has taken them 21 years to be able to buy a house. When DH and I got married in 1970 it took us one year to save the deposit and buy a house. I was a draughtsman and he was a lorry driver - not a degree between us. The housing crisis will never be solved while prices are so unaffordable.

theconversation.com/housing-crisis-cant-be-solved-by-tinkering-with-planning-laws-build-more-social-housing-instead-92902

www.24housing.co.uk/news/sanctuary-secures-200m-private-placement/

Why do American companies want to buy into UK rented housing groups?

The MP chosen to discuss the speech on behalf of the government is Kevin Hollinrake, an estate agent and a landlord!

May speaking now about her housing vision. Young people angry about handing over more of their income to landlords who just see their homes as assets.
How many Tory MPs is she criticising there?

She sounds a real socialist today. When is she going to change parties?

labourlist.org/2018/03/the-crisis-on-our-doorstep-our-national-homelessness-shame/

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/03/affordable-housing-rural-england-planning-laws-loophole-exploited-developers-report

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/03/homeless-charities-slam-open-season-street-people-crisis

We really need to start building more homes and quickly, to get people into work and take the homeless off the streets.

www.24housing.co.uk/news/huge-swell-of-support-for-homeless-charities-and-outreach-teams/

inews.co.uk/opinion/rough-sleeping-deadly-weather-bad/

Hope she's not found dead tomorrow.