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And then there were three…

December 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on And then there were three… · Life

Frankie and his fiancee have found a house to rent privately, and Charlie has moved in with them to help with the rent and fill the place up.  Its good for them to all be independent now, but this place is starting to feel empty now with only the girl at home.  Jayne isn’t taking […]

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Campaigning on affordable housing

November 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on Campaigning on affordable housing · Politics

I was out in Horsham’s Carfax again this afternoon with colleagues from Horsham Labour Party to try and persuade shoppers to sign our petition about affordable housing.

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The Circus of unearthly delights

November 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

Hot on the heels of his utter denial of global warming, Philip Circus has used his column in the West Sussex County Times this week to apply his (sadly not) unique wisdom on housing provision and his conclusion seems to be that we don’t need any.

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Those who do not learn from history…

July 18th, 2009 · Comments Off on Those who do not learn from history… · Life

The West Sussex County Times carries a column in its property porn section which is sponsored (and written) by a local mortgage company.  Sometimes I look at it, although normally I don’t.  This week I did and was left slack-jawed by the end of it.

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Pushing for 40%

July 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Pushing for 40% · Politics

On Saturday not only was I up before 10am but I was out and about: in Broadbridge Heath to be precise.  I met up with some colleagues from Horsham Labour Party to go knocking on doors.   For a change we were not asknig anybody to vote for us, but just to support us in one […]

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Such big numbers

March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Such big numbers · Politics

Some of the numbers in this story about illegal tenants are staggering.    Illegal tenants are those renting a council or housing association home from  the official tenant who is not living there but sub-letting it. On the face of it, there seems to be no problem.  Won’t a lot of those tenants be paying something […]

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For the chop

March 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on For the chop · Politics

At last – a provider of social housing that has a worse attitude to its tenants than Crawley borough council who may have lied to their tenants and tried to coerce them but have never (as far as I know) resorted to outright blatant threats. This card was sent out to tenants of a housing […]

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There’s No Home For You Here

November 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics

I didn’t like the headline I saw on the frontpage of the Times today: Council homes for life ‘to be scrapped’.  While a lot of the arguments in the piece make sense on their own, I think that they are all founded on a false premise – or at least missing the point.

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House of Fun

August 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Politics

Politicians are supposed to say stupid things.  It is almost inevitable when you think about it: we all say the odd stupid thing, but we don’t have reporters following us around to record them.  Even so, after nearly a week, I still can’t believe what John McCain said.

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Levelling The Land

July 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Levelling The Land · Politics

I have been told that the National Policy Forum has finally accepted what members of the party have been saying for ages and have decided to allow the so-called ‘level playing field’ for social housing.  In other words, local councils can now apply for Housing Corporation grants under the same terms as housing associations. I […]

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