social housing

Councils have warned that up to eight thousand Afghans who came to the UK seeking asylum after the Taliban seized power are at risk of becoming homeless.

Conservative London Assembly Member – Shaun Bailey – who grew up in a council house in Ladbroke Grove, and Aileen Evans, Chief Executive of Grand Union Housing Group discuss social housing.

Beyond of course, the enormous personal tragedies of the Grenfell fire, one of its wider legacies has been to shine an unforgiving light on Britain’s social housing. The former Home Secretary Alan Johnson grew up in the slums of North Kensington, eventually bulldozed to make way for Grenfell.  For his generation, a council home was…

Sometimes words alone aren’t enough to explain the issues. One man experimenting with a different medium is the poet and performer, Tony Walsh.

We hear from residents in Ordsall about what’s worked and what hasn’t in social housing.

We hear from residents in Ordsall about what’s worked and what hasn’t in social housing.

Change has come fast for Salford’s Ordsall estate and for many regeneration has brought hope. But for others gentrification has been unsettling – disrupting communities and demolishing old haunts. Matt Frei hears from some of those here in Ordsall who long for times gone by.

We’re at Ordsall estate, Salford, as we continue our ‘Housing Britain’ series. Tonight, we look at regeneration and gentrification as property prices here soar. We ask where gentrification leaves the communities it transforms – Is it a panacea for modern Britain?

Ten million people across the UK live in social housing, many of them in tower blocks like Grenfell. What the fire revealed was not just the desperate state of some of that housing stock, but the state of Britain, where the price of private property is soaring, driving inequality between home owners and those who…