Nick Hedges very kindly let us use some of his photos here, that he had taken locally in the Harlesden area. What an honour and what an amazing man: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/s...

1.3m households in England are on local authority housing waiting lists, the highest figure since 2014. About 164,000 children live in temporary accommodation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future? My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25 www.amazon.co.uk/Homesick-How...

London boroughs have one officer for every 7,500 rental homes - leaving enforcement deserts “nothing will happen” if tenants complain about poor quality housing. Research by me for The Londoner: www.the-londoner.co.uk/why-is-londo...

I really enjoyed presenting and chairing at this great event

Combine under-investment in social housing with Right to Buy losses and you get..this. No instant solutions-limiting future RTB, as government is doing, should help in longer term-but overall message clear: when low income households have no option but private renting, social security costs rise.

Housing is a health issue. The private rental sector has the highest proportion of non decent housing. It is also the second biggest tenure. With poor, & patchy enforcement. This isn't a surprise. It is a direct consequence of successive Governments' policies. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

As we commemorate VE Day, we should remember the hopes and expectations of servicemen and women for a better, fairer country to emerge from the destruction of war. This is a poster created by and for British prisoners of war in the German prison camp, Stalag Luft III.

@municipaldreams.bsky.social Here’s a nice town hall for you in Porto!

Economists talk alot about the productivity puzzle but when we look at the physical and mental stress of living in poor quality insecure housing it is is not puzzling at all - Helen MacNamara via @sheltercharity.bsky.social @johnvanreenen.bsky.social england.shelter.org.uk/professional...

Opinion piece in @bmj.com on 'Health equity in housing: over-reliance on the private sector will not deliver healthy and affordable homes': www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Working in a local authority PRS housing team and looking for courses? Register your interest here for our popular May 2025 course: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-privat... @pauloatt.bsky.social

Violet Buckle is the lady mayoress of Tower Hamlets in #CalltheMidwife. Read the amazing life story of Beatty Orwell, a real-life Tower Hamlets councillor of the era: writersmosaic.org.uk/content/beat....

How to do everything right by three children who are so extremely vulnerable they are in the care system (so the state as their “corporate parent” has parental responsibility) … … and end up homeless, moving over and over from cheap hotel to hostel to sofa-surfing.

1/ 🧵In 1973, the Department of Environment published 'Children at Play' based on a survey of 16 housing areas: 'it is now widely accepted that children have a deep and urgent need to play'. Important observations and recommendations ensued. The report also contained interesting illustrations ...

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In 2024, 36% of UK children live in poverty, the highest since records began. [Source : Guardian]

Interested in Le Corbusier? A brief blog here: www.jillstewarthousing.co.uk/le-corbusier...

If you fancy a walk around some of Greenwich’s housing - Including Hardy Cottages - you might like to try out housing walking tour: geotourist.com/tours/7475/E...

Lovely walk today looking a Greenwich’s amazing range housing across all tenures, including LCC housing @municipaldreams.bsky.social @lccmunicipal.bsky.social

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

In 2021, 1 in 5 children in England were living in overcrowded, unaffordable or unsuitable homes. Adopting Healthy Homes Principles could help embed health promotion as an overarching aim through the entire housebuilding process www.tcpa.org.uk/resources/raising-the-healthiest-generation-in-history/

Want to learn more about #housingandhealth, terminology and deficiencies? Our new booklets are available here: www.jillstewarthousing.co.uk/new-booklets... @pauloatt.bsky.social

Is this an old Greenwich Borough Council logo? I haven’t seen it before @lccmunicipal.bsky.social @municipaldreams.bsky.social

#Greenwich has the most amazing range of #househistory All this in just one street:

Alfred and Ada Salter made a huge difference to the lives of ordinary people in Bermondsey. This plaque denotes Alfred’s 1873 birth place at 23 South Street in Greenwich. @municipaldreams.bsky.social @househistoryhour.bsky.social #househistory #publichealth

House Historians assemble! I've created a #HouseHistory starter pack. A small but beautiful bunch at the moment, but hoping it'll blossom into a magnificent gathering. Please let me know if you would like to be added, or removed if I've added you and you'd rather not be 🙂. go.bsky.app/9HvCmZX

This new LGA publication look at what councils can do around housing for better neighbourhood health and wellbeing www.local.gov.uk/publications... @municipaldreams.bsky.social

How do we write our working-class family histories? Michael Rees' new guest post is fascinating on both his own family history and the challenges and opportunities in writing it. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/m...

Around 24,000 council homes were built in Britain before the First World War. This is my map - a work in progress - of some of those schemes with links where I have written about them. www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

www.jillstewarthousing.co.uk/roles-and-re... @municipaldreams.bsky.social

The regeneration of Stonebridge Park in Brent - a new, richly illustrated guest post from @housing-jill.bsky.social tells the story: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/s...

NEW POST: @housing-jill.bsky.social brings the story of Stonebridge Park in Brent up to date in 'A Housing Action Trust and Beyond': municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/s...

This week's fascinating new blog post is an essay from @housing-jill.bsky.social on slum clearance and redevelopment in Brent: 'Stonebridge will be ideal to live in’ – a New Utopia and the Lived Realities. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/s...

A fascinating new blog post from @housing-jill.bsky.social on slum clearance and redevelopment in Brent: 'Stonebridge will be ideal to live in’ – a New Utopia and the Lived Realities. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/s...

This week's fine new guest post from @housing-jill.bsky.social takes you through sixty years of the social and housing history of Stonebridge Park in Brent - from villadom to Homes for Heroes to the post-war welfare state. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/s...

New on the blog, a fine guest post by @housing-jill.bsky.social on Stonebridge Park, Brent, taking you through sixty years of its social and housing history. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/s...

A new blog post today. @housing-jill.bsky.social tells the story of Stonebridge Park in Brent. Part I takes us through two world wars, a land fit for heroes and a welfare state: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/s...