by Kane Emerson | Oct 7, 2024 | Housing Research
Social homes are a crucial component of the UK’s housing mix. They are a vital tool in addressing the housing crisis and ensuring everyone can have a safe place to live. There are over 1.2 million people on local authority housing waiting lists, and many more who...
by Kane Emerson | Sep 15, 2024 | Housing Research
UK housing is at a crisis point. Skyrocketing costs, inadequate supply, and misaligned incentives have created a perfect storm that impacts every aspect of our society – from individual aspiration to national economic growth. The Government has won a...
by Kane Emerson | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Kane Emerson writing in Red Brick Blog A new generation of New Towns – tree-lined and with character rooted in local history! Angela Rayner outlined Labour’s ambitions at a UK housing conference in Leeds yesterday. The announcement adds more detail to the...
by Kane Emerson | May 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
This piece was first published in the Fabian member policy group report “Homes for London” Introduction The Labour Party has a proud history of building council homes. A century ago, during Labour’s first Government under Ramsay MacDonald, housing defined...
by Kane Emerson | Mar 1, 2024 | Housing Research
‘Then, as the millennium was dawning, a miracle happened. The government returned every penny that I had paid in taxes over the previous 40 years. So for four decades I had lived tax free – and I had not dodged the taxman! How was this possible? I ‘confessed’ in...
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