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
Wednesday 18 March 2020 Coronavirus / John Healey Renewed call to ban coronavirus evictions as new figures reveal six million renter households have no savings Continue Reading
Monday 16 March 2020 Coronavirus / John Healey Labour demands eviction ban for renters with coronavirus Continue Reading
Thursday 27 February 2020 Housing / John Healey Government still set to break pledge to end rough sleeping – John Healey Continue Reading
Wednesday 26 February 2020 John Healey John Healey responds to the Prime Minister’s announcement on rough sleeping Continue Reading
Wednesday 26 February 2020 Homelessness / John Healey John Healey writes to UK Statistics Authority about misleading rough sleeping figures 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
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
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
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
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 / John Healey Healey responds to homelessness statistics Continue Reading
Thursday 22 August 2019 John Healey / Poverty 130,000 families in one-bed flats – John Healey responds 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 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
Thursday 6 June 2019 John Healey High rents have made young people less mobile – John Healey 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
Friday 8 March 2019 Housing / John Healey Labour commits to indefinite tenancies for private renters Continue Reading
Friday 15 February 2019 Housing / John Healey LGA research shows the huge cost of Conservative Ministers’ disastrous decision to slash funding for new social housing – Healey Continue Reading
Friday 8 February 2019 Housing / John Healey Deep cuts are stopping us building the homes the country needs – John Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 31 January 2019 Housing / John Healey Rough sleeping figures are desperately disappointing – Healey Continue Reading
Thursday 20 December 2018 Housing / John Healey Labour-led ‘homes fit for human habitation’ legislation comes into force Continue Reading
Thursday 13 December 2018 Housing / John Healey Under the Tories even more children will be homeless this Christmas – John Healey Continue Reading