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Joe Beswick
@joebeswick1
He/him. Housing and land for @nef. Also @LDNrentersunion, PhD financialisation of social housing, trustee @PIRCuk
May 15, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
There’s lots of debate about whether rent suspension is possible, necessary and appropriate, and whether it would help the renters most in need of help. @nef we have have outlined how such a policy would work, and why it is needed 1/ Current government policy is failing renters, and @londoncouncils are warning of an ‘avalanche’ of evictions coming down the line. The suspension of evictions is set to end in June, and already 2.6mn renters have missed, or expect to miss a rent payment.
Oct 4, 2018 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Scrapping the borrowing cap is the first really big win for housing campaigners in a long time. But to turn it into the mass council housebuilding programme needed to actually solve the crisis, we need to push on more key demands. 1/ First, ending the right to buy - if the government's figures are right, then even with the removed cap, right to buy means we will still have a net loss of c. 2k council homes every year. Scrapping the cap won't even help us hang on to what we have got.