Friday 27 March 2020 Coronavirus / Housing / John Healey Healey responds to Government encouraging councils to house rough sleepers Continue Reading
Monday 23 March 2020 Coronavirus / Housing / John Healey Healey responds to government amendment to the Coronavirus Bill Continue Reading
Thursday 27 February 2020 Housing / John Healey Government still set to break pledge to end rough sleeping – John Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 25 February 2020 Flooding / Housing / John Healey Inappropriate building on flood plains must stop – John Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 13 February 2020 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to statistics showing that hundreds of blocks still remain cloaked in Grenfell-style cladding Continue Reading
Wednesday 29 January 2020 Housing / John Healey Healey responds to LGA’s research on the effects of Tory cuts on homelessness services Continue Reading
Tuesday 28 January 2020 Homelessness / Housing Rough sleeping funding – John Healey responds Continue Reading
Thursday 23 January 2020 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to the English Housing Survey Continue Reading
Friday 17 January 2020 Housing / John Healey Boris Johnson should reverse his decision to appoint Benita Mehra and apologise – John Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 16 January 2020 Housing Sarah Jones comments on statistics showing hundreds of tower blocks are still wrapped in Grenfell-style cladding Continue Reading
Friday 3 January 2020 Housing / John Healey Healey responds to government’s council funding announcement Continue Reading
Wednesday 18 December 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to latest government homelessness statistics Continue Reading
Wednesday 4 December 2019 Housing / Jeremy Corbyn / John Healey Labour pledges ‘moral mission’ to save lives this Christmas and end rough sleeping Continue Reading
Tuesday 3 December 2019 Housing / John Healey “Shameful”: Healey responds to statistics showing that 135,000 children will be homeless this Christmas Continue Reading
Sunday 24 November 2019 Housing / Jeremy Corbyn / John Healey Labour pledges to put bad landlords out of business with new charter of renters’ rights and ‘property MOT’ Continue Reading
Wednesday 20 November 2019 Housing / Jeremy Corbyn / John Healey Labour pledges a “housing revolution” Continue Reading
Wednesday 20 November 2019 Housing / John Healey The Conservatives have slashed funding for housing benefit and new low-cost homes – John Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 19 November 2019 Housing / John Healey Healey responds to “national emergency” of dangerous cladding on tower blocks Continue Reading
Monday 18 November 2019 Grenfell / Housing Sarah Jones writes to Secretary of State calling for urgent clarity around Government cladding testing regime Continue Reading
Sunday 17 November 2019 Housing Ministers have left countless residents unknowingly living in death traps for years – Sarah Jones Continue Reading
Saturday 16 November 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to the Bolton fire Continue Reading
Thursday 14 November 2019 Housing / John Healey Removing deadly Grenfell-type cladding from tower blocks would take 13 more years under the Tories Continue Reading
Saturday 9 November 2019 Housing / John Healey Conservatives slashing funding for new low-cost homes and refuse to help private renters Continue Reading
Tuesday 5 November 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey comment on National Audit Office investigation into Conservatives’ ‘starter homes’ programme Continue Reading
Friday 1 November 2019 Environment / Housing / Jeremy Corbyn / John Healey Labour pledges to make all new homes zero carbon within three years Continue Reading
Friday 1 November 2019 Housing / John McDonnell McDonnell responds to government infrastructure funding Continue Reading
Wednesday 9 October 2019 Housing / John Healey RIBA win for Labour’s Norwich Council – John Healey responds Continue Reading
Tuesday 1 October 2019 Housing / John Healey ONS figures shown a record 726 homeless died last year – John Healey responds Continue Reading
Monday 23 September 2019 Housing / John Healey 8.4 million people across England living in unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable homes – Healey responds Continue Reading
Friday 20 September 2019 Housing / John Healey 6% of homes built on sold-off public land will be for social rent – John Healey responds to NEF report Continue Reading
Monday 16 September 2019 Housing / John Healey 20-somethings spending third of income on rent Continue Reading
Thursday 12 September 2019 Housing / Sarah Jones Nine in 10 private blocks with Grenfell-style cladding still haven’t had it replaced – Sarah Jones Continue Reading
Thursday 12 September 2019 Housing / John Healey Healey responds to homelessness statistics Continue Reading
Wednesday 28 August 2019 Housing Tinkering with shared ownership is meaningless when low cost homes aren’t being built Continue Reading
Thursday 15 August 2019 Housing / Sarah Jones Sarah Jones responds to news that Grenfell survivors have been rehoused in unsafe buildings Continue Reading
Thursday 18 July 2019 Housing / Sarah Jones Sarah Jones responds to government’s announcement that HPL cladding is a fire risk and must be removed Continue Reading
Thursday 18 July 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to select committee report on cladding Continue Reading
Wednesday 17 July 2019 Housing / John Healey The country needs a new plan to fix the housing crisis – John Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 2 July 2019 Housing / Sarah Jones On 10th anniversary of Lakanal House fire, Labour investigation reveals 95% of high-rise social housing blocks are still without sprinklers Continue Reading
Tuesday 2 July 2019 Alex Cunningham / Housing Alex Cunningham responds to Mark Field describing homeless people as ‘undesirables’ Continue Reading
Tuesday 25 June 2019 Housing / John Healey This is a lame duck announcement from a lame duck PM – John Healey Continue Reading
Tuesday 25 June 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey comments on NHF figures showing a fall in social housing numbers Continue Reading
Monday 24 June 2019 Housing / John Healey Cuts hit areas with the highest levels of homeless deaths hardest Continue Reading
Tuesday 18 June 2019 Housing / John Healey Social housing building collapses – John Healey responds Continue Reading
Tuesday 11 June 2019 Housing / John Healey Labour urges end of year deadline for removal of Grenfell-style cladding and confiscation of private blocks if work isn’t done Continue Reading
Friday 24 May 2019 Housing The shameful rise in homeless children stuck in temporary accommodation will be the legacy of this failed Conservative Government – Alex Cunningham Continue Reading
Thursday 9 May 2019 Housing / John Healey Astonishing it has taken two years for Ministers to act on Grenfell-style cladding – Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 2 May 2019 Housing / John Healey Conservative Government can’t even get homes built on the land that it owns – John Healey Continue Reading
Monday 15 April 2019 Housing / John Healey John Healey responds to the government’s pledge to protect tenants against unfair eviction Continue Reading