Watching and reading BBC News online this morning (23 October, ‘The Peckham primary school where most children are homeless’) shows an article by Henry Low. It dismayed me. It was not the worrying but inevitable truth summed up in their strapline above, but the audacious claim in it by a government minister. Felicity Buchan, the … Continue reading Homelessness: nightmare or vision?

At last it seems clear the main political parties recognise England has a house deficit problem. It is an important step forward. Taken a decade. Some more far sighted politicians also are beginning to connect the lack of national growth with local resistance to local change. For example the need for a massive boost in … Continue reading Who decides?