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Former Grenfell Tower housing boss leaves £150,000 council property role after backlash
By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
Survivors had criticised ‘outrageous’ appointment of Laura Johnson, who oversaw cost-cutting measures before fire, to Barnet Group
#GrenfellTowerfire #Socialhousing #Housing #Communities #Society #UKnews #London #England #Localgovernment #Politics #TheGuardian #JessicaMurraySocialaffairscorrespondent
Former Grenfell Tower housing boss leaves £150,000 council property role after backlash https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/12/former-grenfell-tower-housing-boss-laura-johnson-leaves-council-property-role-after-backlash #GrenfellTowerFire #SocialHousing #Housing #Communities #Society #UkNews #London #England #LocalGovernment #Politics
Man left with 1,000 bedbug bites following repeated infestations
Man left with 1,000 bedbug bites following repeated infestations
Epigenetic clocks like PhenoAge and GrimAge reveal that severe housing insecurity accelerates DNA methylation aging by 5 to 15 years beyond calendar age. Residential deprivation alters cellular repair. Educate your community: housing security slows biological aging. #SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/29232/ Social housing for workers: from eligible to affordable. #housing #Housing&RealEstate #RealEstate #SocialHousing #TradeUnion #workers
https://www.europesays.com/ie/728122/ 40+% of social housing ALLOCATION in Fingal to those born abroad #Business #Éire #Fingal #IE #Ireland #PatrickQuinlan #SocialHousing
Labour chair of housing committee calls for urgent funds for affordable homes in England
By Kiran Stacey Policy editor
Exclusive: Abena Oppong-Asare urges chancellor to unlock billions of pounds, as housing associations say they could build 41,000 homes in 10 years
#Housing #Socialhousing #JohnHealey #Budget #Politics #Society #Communities #UKnews #TheGuardian #KiranStaceyPolicyeditor
Free land for those who will build on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK's social housing problem? | Phineas Harper
By Phineas Harper
A bold south London initiative to give land to community groups rather than private developers could transform the system
#Socialhousing #Localgovernment #London #Housing #Communities #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #PhineasHarper
Free land for those who will build on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK's social housing problem? | Phineas Harper https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/08/free-land-build-lewisham-council-london-social-housing-problem #SocialHousing #LocalGovernment #London #Housing #Communities #England #UkNews
Proving the lasting value of Britain’s social and affordable housing ambitions
Image: iStock | © georgeclerk Cleo Folkes, lead consultant – real assets at Thrive, discusses the social impact…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #affordablehousing #Exclusive #SocialHousing #Socialvalue
https://www.europesays.com/britain/139842/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/139842/ Proving the lasting value of Britain’s social and affordable housing ambitions #AffordableHousing #Britain #Exclusive #SocialHousing #SocialValue
Epigenetic clocks like PhenoAge and GrimAge reveal that severe housing insecurity accelerates DNA methylation aging by 5 to 15 years beyond calendar age. Residential deprivation alters cellular repair. Educate your community: housing security slows biological aging. #SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
Landlords of damp, mice-infested houses are building Burnham’s new homes
Vermin infestations in a light bulb, carpets wet from mould, mice nesting at the bottom of a sofa.…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Lambeth #AndyBurnham #AngelaRayner #HousingCrisis #landlords #PropertyDevelopers #socialhousing
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/34734/
Epigenetic clocks like PhenoAge and GrimAge reveal that severe housing insecurity accelerates DNA methylation aging by 5 to 15 years beyond calendar age. Residential deprivation alters cellular repair. Educate your community: housing security slows biological aging. #SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/34734/ Landlords of damp, mice-infested houses are building Burnham’s new homes #AndyBurnham #AngelaRayner #HousingCrisis #Lambeth #landlords #PropertyDevelopers #SocialHousing
How an 87-year-old Spanish woman became the face of the fight for affordable housing – explainer
By Laure Boulinier, Ashifa Kassam and John Farrell
María del Carmen Abascal, 87, was evicted from her home, on a stretcher, after being given 30 minutes to gather her belongings.
#Spain #Housing #Rentingproperty #Socialhousing #Protest #Europe #TheGuardian #LaureBoulinier #AshifaKassam #JohnFarrell
Epigenetic clocks like PhenoAge and GrimAge reveal that severe housing insecurity accelerates DNA methylation aging by 5 to 15 years beyond calendar age. Residential deprivation alters cellular repair. Educate your community: housing security slows biological aging. #SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
The Guardian view on Grenfell prosecutions: at last, survivors have a date | Editorial
By Editorial
Prosecutors will decide who to charge within eight months. But ministers should also re-examine the law
#GrenfellTowerinquiry #GrenfellTowerfire #Metropolitanpolice #London #Localgovernment #CrownProsecutionService #Socialhousing #Constructionindustry #TheGuardian #Editorial
Thamesmead towers across South Mere
#photography #monochrome #architecture #SocialHousing #CouncilHouse #SystemBuilt #Thamesmead
Epigenetic clocks like PhenoAge and GrimAge reveal that severe housing insecurity accelerates DNA methylation aging by 5 to 15 years beyond calendar age. Residential deprivation alters cellular repair. Educate your community: housing security slows biological aging. #SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
Campaigners against Lewisham Shopping Centre homes scheme told objections are too late
Objections from more than 4,600 campaigners against a £1.5 billion redevelopment of Lewisham Shopping Centre have fallen on…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Lewisham #fullcouncil #LewishamCouncil #Lewishamshoppingcentre #LiamShrivastava #Shrivastava #socialhousing
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/32515/
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/32515/ Campaigners against Lewisham Shopping Centre homes scheme told objections are too late #FullCouncil #Lewisham #LewishamCouncil #LewishamShoppingCentre #LiamShrivastava #Shrivastava #SocialHousing
https://www.europesays.com/ie/711364/ Limits on non-EEA workers relaxed ‘temporarily’ to tackle staff shortages in healthcare – The Irish Times #DarraghOBrien #Disability #Éire #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #HealthcareInvestment #IE #Ireland #JamesBrowne #NursingHomes #PeterBurke #SocialHousing
https://www.europesays.com/3277721/ Spain’s housing crisis: Key issues come into focus after 87-year-old evicted from home #EuropeanUnion #HousingCrisis #HousingPrices #Madrid #MadridTenants'Union #Maricarmen #SocialHousing #spain
Spain’s housing crisis: key points after protests over Maricarmen
Images of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, being removed from her home in Madrid have become…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #EuropeanUnion #HousingPrices #Madrid #MadridTenants'Union #Maricarmen #socialhousing
https://www.europesays.com/spain/92714/
Spain’s housing crisis: key points after protests over Maricarmen
Images of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, being removed from her home in Madrid have become…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #EuropeanUnion #HousingPrices #Madrid #MadridTenants'Union #Maricarmen #socialhousing
https://www.europesays.com/spain/92712/
Angela Rayner promises greater public control of housing in England
By Jessica Elgot
Conference speech to announce housing associations cannot reject homeless families without good reason as councils gain new powers
#Housing #Labourconference2026 #Socialhousing #Homelessness #AngelaRayner #Labour #Localgovernment #Politics #UKnews #Society #TheGuardian #JessicaElgot
Spain’s housing crisis: key points after protests over Maricarmen https://www.byteseu.com/2405749/ #EuropeanUnion #HousingPrices #Madrid #MadridTenants'Union #Maricarmen #SocialHousing #Spain
#Winter is coming. Without storms, 165 to 195 beautiful humans die outside in America every day. I've run this #research over and over for the last couple of years. It was 126. It's rising dramatically. We're killing them by policy. #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingFirst #SovereignWealth #SocialHousing
#Winter is coming. Without storms, 165 to 195 beautiful humans die outside in America every day. I've run this #research over and over for the last couple of years. It was 126. It's rising dramatically. We're killing them by policy. #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingFirst #SovereignWealth #SocialHousing
#Rationing #housing through #algorithmic tools like the VI-SPDAT forces unhoused people to prove extreme sickness and trauma to get a roof. When shelter is rationed by diagnostic score, we incentivize pathology instead of preventing harm. Reject algorithmic triage. #SocialHousing
#HousingFirst
SCURLAGE: Old Countryman pub to be bulldozed for 21 affordable homes
The bulldozers are lining up for the Countryman.
The boarded-up Scurlage pub, which shut in April 2019 as the Monksland Bar and Grill, would be flattened to make way for 21 affordable homes under plans now out for public consultation.
Developer Hale Group is working with housing association Codi, formerly Pobl, and every one of the homes would be affordable.
But the plans do not say they would be kept for local people.
Homes for the housing register, no mention of a local connection
The homes would go to people who meet the requirements of Swansea Council’s housing register, the developer’s planning statement says.
Nowhere do the planning documents restrict them to people from Scurlage or Gower.
The statement does argue the scheme meets the council’s policy for affordable homes “for local needs”, which says homes must go to people who meet the council’s “occupancy criteria”. It does not say what those criteria would be.
A legal agreement is expected to keep the homes affordable “in perpetuity”, it adds.
The plans are for four one-bedroom flats, 11 two-bedroom houses, three three-bedroom houses and three four-bedroom houses.
It is the second former Gower pub in a matter of weeks to be cleared for housing. Swansea Council’s planning committee voted unanimously on 8 September to let the Greyhound at Oldwalls, near Llanrhidian, make way for nine homes.
Four of those will be affordable. Llanrhidian Community Council had objected to them being offered as shared ownership instead of going to a housing association, but the developer’s agent told councillors that Beacon Cymru Group had now agreed to take them on.
Backing the scheme, committee member Cllr Peter May said it had long been a problem on Gower that people could not stay in the area from one generation to the next.
The Countryman scheme would be social rent throughout, with Codi as the partner.
A nightclub, a stage and 500 covers
For anyone who never made it through the doors, the Countryman was far bigger than it looked from the road.
It had around 500 covers, according to a viability report written for the developer: a 200-cover lounge bar with its own stage, a 90-cover restaurant and a 230-capacity nightclub with a DJ booth.
The former Monksland Bar and Grill, once the Countryman, seen from the west (Image: Spring Design Consultancy)Takings had been sliding for years. The report puts turnover at £327,117 in 2003, falling to around £165,000 a year by 2013, when the pub was “loss making”.
One viewing, not a single offer
Nobody wanted it. The pub was on the market from January 2020 until the middle of 2025, drawing around 16 enquiries, one viewing and no offers, the planning statement says.
It had already failed to sell twice, according to the viability report: at £595,000 in 2007 and at £395,000 in 2013.
It is now agreed to be sold to developers for £650,000.
Surveyor Kate Robertson of Fleurets, who wrote the report, calculates that anyone reopening it as a pub would lose about £34,000 a year.
“I am of the opinion that the property does not have a credible or economically sustainable future trading as a public house,” she says.
Since it shut, village drinkers have made do with the South Gower Sports Club bar, which opens Thursday to Saturday evenings and costs £10 a year to join, the statement notes.
The field across the road still waiting for its homes
Just 35 metres away, across the B4247, a field has been earmarked for local-needs affordable housing in Swansea’s local plan. No planning application for it has ever come forward, the statement says.
The developer argues its own scheme is the better bet: a brownfield site instead of farmland, and 21 affordable homes against the 13 required on the field.
Too crowded for Gower, the council said first time round
The first version squeezed in 27 homes. In June 2025, Swansea Council’s planners told the developer it was too dense for the Gower AONB and asked for more evidence that the pub could not survive, according to the statement.
The scheme was cut back and a play area added, and later council advice welcomed the “better placemaking”. Highways officers also asked for a pedestrian crossing on Monksland Road, which is now in the plans.
The two-storey homes would be finished in pastel render, with heat pumps instead of oil or gas boilers.
Got a view? You have until 22 October
Comments can be emailed to [email protected], or posted to Simply Planning Ltd, 302 Creative Quarter, 8a Morgan Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1AF, by Thursday 22 October.
The full planning application then goes to Swansea Council, which would consult again before any decision.
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Eviction of 87-year-old puts Spain’s deepening housing crisis in the spotlight
By Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
Images of Maricarmen Abascal being forcibly removed from her home sparked protests and a reckoning over the country’s soaring real estate market
#Spain #Europe #Worldnews #Rentingproperty #Housing #Socialhousing #Protest #Society #TheGuardian #AshifaKassaminMadrid
#Mortality from #homelessness is predictable. A #home is the first part of #healthcare! 🔦🔦🔦
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#HousingFirst
#HousingJustice
#SovereignWealth
#SocialHousing
#DecommodifyHousing
#EndHomelessness
#RightToShelter
#Urbanism
#CitySky
#PublicBanking
The #Viennese housing model is praised worldwide, but without permanent funding, it’s the #Housing #Industrial #Complex dressed up for the night. Without real wealth behind it, cities just manage misery instead of ending it. #SHE changes that. #HousingIsAHumanRight #SovereignWealth #SocialHousing
#Rationing #housing through #algorithmic tools like the VI-SPDAT forces unhoused people to prove extreme sickness and trauma to get a roof. When shelter is rationed by diagnostic score, we incentivize pathology instead of preventing harm. Reject algorithmic triage. #SocialHousing
#HousingFirst
Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain
By Hettie O'Brien
The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?
#AndyBurnham #Labour #Localgovernment #Thinktanks #KeirStarmer #Mayoralelections #Devolution #Localpolitics #Socialhousing #Politics #UKnews #Manchester #Society #Housing #TheGuardian #HettieOBrien
Adults over 50 now make up nearly 50% of single unhoused Americans, up from 11% in 1990. They account for over 61% of all street deaths. The people dying on our sidewalks are retired workers and seniors on fixed incomes priced out of their homes.
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#HousingFirst
@bgreen63.bsky.social, #MissKitty slept on sidewalks cuz they stayed warmer longer. Ate out of the dumpster. Walking miles a day looking for a job. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingJustice #SocialHousing #Musicsky
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If 180 people died in a disaster on American soil today, the nation would halt in mourning. Yet 165 to 195 unhoused people die every 24 hours from cold, heat, and neglect. We have #normalized a #domestic #catastrophe that demands emergency action.
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
If 180 people died in a disaster on American soil today, the nation would halt in mourning. Yet 165 to 195 unhoused people die every 24 hours from cold, heat, and neglect. We have #normalized a #domestic #catastrophe that demands emergency action.
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
During the peak intensity of the #Gaza war, daily casualties were 100 to 140 per day, sparking worldwide condemnation. In America, 165 to 195 #homeless people die every single day outside. Why is a comparable loss of life met with total silence?
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
We treat 60,000 to 71,000 homeless deaths/year as inevitable municipal attrition. It is not. It is policy. 165 to 195 neighbors die daily on concrete because housing is treated as an unaffordable commodity rather than fundamental human necessity. #HousingIsAHumanRight #SocialHousing #HousingJustice
We treat 60,000 to 71,000 homeless deaths/year as inevitable municipal attrition. It is not. It is policy. 165 to 195 neighbors die daily on concrete because housing is treated as an unaffordable commodity rather than fundamental human necessity. #HousingIsAHumanRight #SocialHousing #HousingJustice
Every 8 minutes in the United States, an unhoused human being dies from exposure, untreated illness, or neglect. 165 to 195 people every 24 hours. This isn't background noise; it is an ongoing domestic mass casualty event that housing could stop. #HousingIsAHumanRight #SocialHousing #HousingJustice
#MissKitty #homelessness top 10 #hashtags according to my #research.
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
#HousingFirst
#Urbanism / #CitySky
#DecommodifyHousing
#TenantPower / #TenantUnion
#SovereignWealth / #PublicBanking
#EndHomelessness
#RightToShelter
126 died outside yesterday.
#MissKitty #homelessness top 10 #hashtags according to my #research.
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#SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
#HousingFirst
#Urbanism / #CitySky
#DecommodifyHousing
#TenantPower / #TenantUnion
#SovereignWealth / #PublicBanking
#EndHomelessness
#RightToShelter
126 died outside yesterday.
Awaab’s law is not working, say social housing tenants stuck in mouldy homes
By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
Residents say new legislation in England forcing landlords to fix dangerous hazards is not improving conditions
#Socialhousing #Housing #Communities #Localgovernment #Society #Politics #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #JessicaMurraySocialaffairscorrespondent
#MissKittyResearch #Bluesky #homelessness top 10 #hashtags according to my #research today.
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
#HousingFirst
#Urbanism / #CitySky
#DecommodifyHousing
#TenantPower / #TenantUnion
#SovereignWealth / #PublicBanking
#EndHomelessness
#RightToShelter
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#MissKittyResearch #Bluesky #homelessness top 10 #hashtags according to my #research today.
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#SocialHousing
#HousingJustice
#HousingFirst
#Urbanism / #CitySky
#DecommodifyHousing
#TenantPower / #TenantUnion
#SovereignWealth / #PublicBanking
#EndHomelessness
#RightToShelter
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Director who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting given senior council housing role
By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
Fire survivors and bereaved urge Barnet Group to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Laura Johnson, who pushed for cheaper contractor
#Housing #GrenfellTowerfire #GrenfellTowerinquiry #Socialhousing #London #UKnews #England #Communities #Society #Localgovernment #Politics #TheGuardian #JessicaMurraySocialaffairscorrespondent
Director who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting given senior council housing role https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/13/grenfell-fire-director-laura-johnson-barnet-council-housing #Housing #GrenfellTowerFire #GrenfellTowerInquiry #SocialHousing #London #UkNews #England #Communities #Society #LocalGovernment #Politics
Only slim chance government will meet target of building 1.5m homes, minister says
By Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
Angela Rayner says manifesto pledge is not being dropped but focus is now on building council houses
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/13/slim-chance-government-target-building-homes
#Housing #AngelaRayner #Labour #AndyBurnham #Socialhousing #UKnews #Politics #Society #Planningpolicy #TheGuardian #JessicaElgotDeputypoliticaleditor
Only slim chance government will meet target of building 1.5m homes, minister says https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/13/slim-chance-government-target-building-homes #Housing #AngelaRayner #Labour #AndyBurnham #SocialHousing #UkNews #Politics #Society #PlanningPolicy