The question is how - if structural constraints (LHA, benefit cap, budgets etc) remain. Otherwise the incentive is to prevent homelessness applications rather than homelessness. For starters, ban contracts with companies that arrange long-distance relocations? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

No one wants this. Not the families. Not the receiving areas. Not London boroughs. It’s a nightmare all round. But if London councils can’t fund homelessness accommodation locally, due to Local Housing Allowance freezes and budget pressures, they will procure elsewhere. This isn’t complicated.

Far too many people haven't read the judge's sentencing remarks to Digwa and it really shows in some of the fuckwitted takes being bandied about. They're here; it'll take you five or so minutes to read them. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Musk did exactly the same after Southport - why is the government still on x? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What makes a football shirt iconic? Design and branding apparently, nothing to do with who wore it (Brazil 1970 and England 1966 don’t mention the manufacturer) www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Not sure what he's announcing here. The Social Housing Bill? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is becoming the new 'Dog bites man' in local journalism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trying very hard to avoid the knee jerk response to this - but failing Reeves turns to Blair-style PFIs to fund new towns www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/209c7fd...

Beat Saudi Arabia home and away, beat Abu Dhabi over a season, couldn’t quite beat Qatar on penalties

Turns out that Mamdani is the real deal www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...

NEW: Labour's housing benefit cuts have hit a million of the poorest renters, often costing them more than £1,000 a year Greater Manchester and the West Midlands have been worst hit My new substack on the cost of living measure the next PM must take chamindajayanetti.substack.com/p/how-labour...

Higher taxes on second homes seem to be working so far House prices plunge in most desirable seaside towns www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/eba0640...

Good piece on the tensions between private development and affordable housing in Manchester that will also play out at national level if Burnham becomes Labour leader www.ft.com/content/be94... How Andy Burnham adapted his politics to skyscraper city

More or less the first act of new Enfield Council after Conservatives take control and a real blow to new towns programme enfielddispatch.co.uk/enfield-coun...

A quarter of young children now live in the private rented sector. In fact, children are now more likely than adults to do so. 🏠 More in our latest Housing Outlook➡️ buff.ly/SNjZ77G

Big news if he turns his words into actions www.ft.com/content/a743... Andy Burnham says land in the UK is ‘undertaxed’

Seems crazy that a fight over % of affordable housing becomes outright rejection because of harm development would do to Peckham's character giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Retirement flats are the embodiment of buyer beware - an extreme version of all the problems with leasehold www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is China repeating Japan's property bust and lost decade? www.ft.com/content/381f...

Very odd that the one chart included in this article directly contradicts the article's fundamental premise (that current/future welfare spending is "unaffordable")

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

Just worked out I was three days old when Hearts last won the league, 26 when they lost it on the final day. No better way to celebrate getting my bus pass than another win 💕💕

Who'd have guessed that closing proper Post Offices and housing branches inside a high street retailer instead might lead to problems down the line? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Finally, we have data to show vast majority of landlords earn supernormal returns: even with high interest rates, 63% outperform a 60:40 equity-gilt portfolio & 71% beat the broader real estate sector. Proud to have co-authored this with @autonomy-institute.bsky.social autonomy.work/portfolio/th...

It's taken ten years (and counting) but the King's Speech includes a Bill that will finally kill off zombie Conservative social housing policies from 2016 that were never implemented but remained on the statute books

Incredible seen from the outside that Australia still has huge tax breaks for landlords - and will still have them for existing investors even after Budget changes www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

From Japan to Australia, India, Germany and the UK, builders face up to shortages and price rises triggered by the Strait of Hormuz stand-off www.ft.com/content/aa89...

Phew not sure my heart can take many more games like that

Happy memories of going to Italia 90 before FIFA sold football’s soul over and over again www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Why did it take this long? He was great in midfield when he was nominally left back as well

Thought this was very good - a rare long read where every word was worth it www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Section 21 is no more! From today, in England, landlords will need a legal reason to evict you - making it easier for you to complain about unsafe conditions and challenge excessive rent increases. And no more fixed terms mean it's easier to move when your circumstances change.

Canary Wharf Group claims it will be a big loser from the Renters' Rights Act (and thinks it can 'mitigate' it by shifting to short-term lets) www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f16cbea...

Admittedly not a neutral opinion but don’t understand how that’s not a penalty

Brilliant game between PSG and Bayern ruined by a ridiculous penalty decision just before half time

Apparently I should clarify: this is not a joke. It literally was Bear Grylls. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Downing St has just made clear that it will *not* be introducing one-year rent controls on private landlords: "That's not the approach we'll be taking." Which raises questions over why the Treasury didn't bother to deny the report suggesting this yesterday evening.

Property developer pleading poverty is an interestng defence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Response from landlords to this leak will presumably be to increase rents as much as they can before any freeze? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In the 1930s a housebuilder built 8-foot high walls topped with spikes to divide its private development in Oxford from the council estate next door. The story of the Cutteslowe Walls has many more legacies than you might think julesbirch.com/2026/04/07/t...

The latest YouGov/ITV Wales/Cardiff Uni is a real puzzler given that, alongside Senedd VIs, we also have this - and I have no idea how to reconcile them! A three pipe problem?!

NEW ITV Wales YouGov MRP has Plaid and Reform neck and neck in Senedd vote intention Impossible to say who would be largest party in terms of seats but neither would be close to majority Would almost certainly result in Plaid led government as they have more potential allies in the Senedd 🧵👇

If only there were some sort ot German compound word to describe this www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/shadow-...

Giles co-authored the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act with Justin, and I was delighted to work with him on other projects too. I was, frankly, terrified of Giles’ razor-sharp intelligence but soothed by his kindness and great good humour. God, we will miss him.

Such shocking and sad news - on a personal level my condolences to all his friends and family, on a professional one what a huge loss for everyone who cares about housing and the law and social justice

Not just a London problem and there’s not one simple solution but maybe begin by refusing to accept that housing costs that price families out of housing are some sort of natural phenomenon giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... What is a city without children?

'Demonising the philanthropists' is a good one giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

‘The BBC understands that Lord Mandelson had no knowledge of the vetting decision’ Why not ‘Mandelson claims that he had did not know about…’ or even ‘sources close to Lord Mandelson claim that…’?

'Affordability gains from the equity loan schemes were concentrated among higher-income individuals... likely that these schemes accelerated their first home purchase by a few years rather than making the difference between becoming a homeowner or not in the longer term' ifs.org.uk/articles/who...

Watching Barcelona v Atletico. Really don’t understand how the push in the back in the first half was ‘not enough for a penalty for me’ but the same push in the back outside the area in the second half was a free kick and a red card