What kind of relationships did Big Local resident-led groups have with #health organisations? Article by me and Lucy Terry www.learningfrombiglocal.org.uk/resources/re...

Duck feeds grain from the tray to the fishes instead of eating alone. 😍

Last few residents on nearly-demolished #AylesburyEstate have been left with #nowater for nearly two weeks – Southwark News share.google/0IPTJkCaXPj5... Cost of 'regeneration' now said to be £350M since 2015.

#SueAnsarie shares insights from across #BigLocal areas on improving #health and #wellbeing in #neighbourhoods. localtrust.org.uk/news-and-blo...

Trust, Local; Ansarie, Sue (2019). Big Local Connects 2019: Evaluation. figshare. Online resource. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... www.learningfrombiglocal.org.uk/resources/bi...

www.tiktok.com/@marcus14_23... This young lad does walk-throughs in towns ax Kent. He's on Facebook, which has more. Brazen 'rapport', acerbic take on #deprivation, #class and #young #energy. Views expressed not mine.

This is the 3rd example I've recently seen/heard about of academics voluntarily proposing reduced contracts to stave off redundancy. I totally understand the desperation, but it's a worrying precedent too? Easy to see how it will become a weapon of management ("take the fraction, or lose your job").

This is awful news. One of the original legal bloggers and one of the very best. nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

The university model is built upon and maintained by a cohort of people who have never known financial hardship, housing issues, or had their basic needs denied. They may still have problems, we all do, but their ability to navigate and thrive is significantly higher. Their safety net is secure.

Now download the Plan JustSpace.org.uk/caringCity

Manchester, 1960s, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).

Given that house building completions in England in 2025 fell by 8%, a 3rd successive fall according to MHCLG, it's worth noting that site viability & affordability were not only the biggest house building issues last year, but they will get worse this year. (1/n) #ukconstruction #ukhousing

The book will be open access and out in late May. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

Join us for the launch at LSE of “Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers” by Patrick Dunleavy and Timothy Monteath, taking place as part of the CIVICA Open Science Conference… a one-day event in person & online for researchers. Book a place: lnkd.in/dRhu2K8Q

Everyone deserves to live in a decent home. Yet poor housing conditions are all too common. The current regulation system for housing disrepair is not working effectively. Learn what’s needed to protect dignity, health and justice for all. 👇

#BritishAsianHistory Home Away From Home looks at women's journeys from Mirpur, Pakistan to Birmingham. Interviews tell the stories of the women making new lives in the city. Women’s Lives in the Archives: tinyurl.com/JourneysFrom... Ref: MS 4760/35 #LibraryofBham #raqsartstudio

Aah, Chopin, the age-old lullaby for cultured felines. 😸💤 #cat #chopin #piano #concerto

In 1952, West Hartlepool Borough Council built 296 new houses. Its Medical Officer of Health looked to the future with confidence ...

southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermond... #OldKentRoad #OverlookingBurgessPark #Southwark #Elephant

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... #studentflatsempty #studentflatsdevelopers #costoflivingcrisis #studentdebt #ypjobscrisis #fallinternationalstudentnumbers

Need a smile? Here’s one of our barn cats yesterday reacting to seeing two feet of snow for the first time in her life. Enjoy! 🐈 ❄️ #cats #barncat #snow

This is Douglas House on the Marshalsea Estate.

Oliver Goldsmith Estate, Peckham; a London County Council Estate completed in the early 1930s.

LSE Press books are now available on JSTOR open access and many other outlets blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

🚨New on Substack, the first of three posts charting the innovative architecture and changing forms of Camden's council housing - the Whittington Estate: ‘a form of housing more closely related to the existing urban fabric’ ... municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-whitti...

The Lansbury Estate at 75: a study day and guided walk organised by @c20society.bsky.social with a distinguished range of speakers (!) on 16 May 2026. Details and booking here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Intervention—“‘Mass Deportations = Lower Housing Costs’: When Necropolitics Meets Liberal Economics” by @simtulum.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/02/02/n...

Working on a presentation about the #IMD2025 and boy how I'd forgotten how much I love maps and data visualisations. Just coming back up from this rabbit hole on income distribution in England. #InformationIsBeautiful @monachalabi.bsky.social www.ons.gov.uk/visualisatio...

🚨 New on Substack: 'Housing in St Pancras before 1914 - 'the foulest parish in all London' open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

Londoners: last chance to tell Mayor he is wrong on housing. Michaeledwards.org.uk

But it is only January! www.edp24.co.uk/news/2578497...

1/ A London County Council bedcover in Carrington House, Deptford, the 'common lodging house' opened in 1903. Designed by the Council's architect and built by its Works Department, it provided overnight accommodation for 800 men.

Another 'beds in shed' landlord, in Hounslow. An outbuilding "wholly unsuitable for people to live in" let for two years after an enforcement notice requiring its demolition. Fined £14K, costs £7,547.15, and Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation of £59,496.73 for the rent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I watched this last week and IT'S AMAZING! It's at the very start of fly-on-the-wall TV so it was utterly apparent that none of them had really thought about the fact they'd be on telly to millions of people! And the bosses spent over £1k on booze!

The utter mess that leasehold can cause. Freehold sold to dodgy company who propose to develop roofspace to new flats. Works cause devastation to resident leaseholders. Dodgy company goes into administration, making leaseholders' success claim against them pointless. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Policymakers usually think about the value of parks and green spaces in terms of economic and environmental benefits. But as Alexandra Gomes @thebartlettucl.bsky.social Stefano Cavazzi argue parks contribute to people’s wellbeing, overall health, and sense of belonging @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

observer.co.uk/news/nationa... stories like this at big new developments at Elephant and Wembley. Freeholder charging unfair service charges and threatening those who complain. Another slow motion scandal unfolding.

Citizen scientists shaping their own communities 🤝 In our latest Bartlett Review article, Joseph Cook (IGP) alongside London council representatives, explore the importance of citizen science. https://bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/training-citizens-to-shape-their-own-communities-and-cities/index.html

Fantastic inspirational event yesterday, Community Development and Planning with @tomchance.bsky.social #ClaudeHendricksonMBE #AnnSkippers and #MichaelBall (Just Space). Great mix of people & lovely to see @danielmadav.bsky.social #RobinBrown and #MyfanwyTaylor #CommunityLedHousingForAll

I met Neftalem at the weekend and was impressed with him and the importance of his research. Please help if you are able or encourage people you may know to help. (Reposts welcome.)

Aditya Chakrabortty in good form on the criminal enterprises that are houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). #Housing #Austerity #HMOs #UKPolitics #Renting www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Read the story behind our new film, told by our campaign convener Andy Jackson. 👉 www.right-here.org/community-po... Film by @tuz0.bsky.social #CommunityPoweredPolitics #devolution

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” — Albert Camus

Euston Square Gardens South was a 1920’s land grab — 100 yrs later much the same is happening again. Writing in 1923 to the Times university constituency MP Sir Sydney Russell-Wells stated “once built on, it goes without saying that the land is lost forever”

Made by Holborn Trades Council, the leaflet survived as part of the Trades Union Congress archives Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...