Alison Wallace
@alisonwyork.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor, School of Business Society, University of York Housing, shared ownership, homeownership, private renting, algorithmic technologies and housing, social policy
👏👏👏👏 www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/lords-b...
Lords back review of shared ownership to help address ‘horror’ of living in unsellable and unmortgageable homes
The House of Lords has backed an amendment to the Social Housing Bill calling for a comprehensive review of the shared ownership model in the first year.
insidehousing.co.uk
In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
theguardian.com
Nine years since Grenfell. Keir Starmer said its legacy would be one of the defining changes of his premiership. That promise has not been kept. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped in unsafe, unsellable homes. We are asking for an urgent meeting. Read our letter ⬇️
Good write up! @cathnlc.bsky.social @nlc-movement.bsky.social @jodarbyshire.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘The developers got greedy’: the women who took on the leasehold scandal – and won
Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Jo Darbyshire were subject to tens of thousands of pounds of hidden costs as their new-build freeholds soared in value, making their homes unsellable. Their campaign ...
theguardian.com
@alisonwyork.bsky.social propertyindustryeye.com/leasehold-ca...
Leasehold campaigners blast anonymous group over reform challenge 'to protect profits' - Property Industry Eye
Leasehold campaigners blast anonymous group over reform challenge 'to protect profits' - Breaking news for estate agents and the residential property industry. Independent, unbiased, and factual repor...
propertyindustryeye.com
Turns out financialised short cuts to more housing and affordability isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Who knew!? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
More than £52m reserved for social housing at risk after collapse of investment firms
Exclusive: 3,500 social homes could switch to private sector after companies run by Heylo Housing group go into administration
theguardian.com
This afternoon I've been to a powerful installation about the experiences of neurodivergent children who are homeless, living in temporary accommodation. It's sobering how hard it must be, to be honest.
If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2
Very sad to hear of Giles Peaker’s @nearlylegal.co.uk passing. He was very generous with his time and engaged with many conversations, including about shared owners, leaseholders and importantly with those impacted. A real loss to housing law. nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...
Giles Peaker - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment
I am very sorry to announce that Giles passed away over the weekend. If and when there is further information that I can share, I will do so. For now, please take a moment to read the short obituary p...
nearlylegal.co.uk
One of the country's finest libraries of books on town planning and housing policy - the Harry Simpson Memorial Library, currently located in Wisbech - is at risk of being pulped. Please publicise and support the campaign to save it. davemnt.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/a...
A Homeless Library: The Library of the Housing Crisis?
David Mountain, 27 March 2026.[1] In the storerooms of a little-known fenland museum is a treasure trove of rare books on town planning and housing policy, comprising an entire specialist library. …
davemnt.wordpress.com
The Housing Studies Charitable Trust is seeking new Trustees to distribute proceeds from the journal to support housing education and scholarship. Please see advert and share widely. The role isn’t onerous and support important orgs and postdocs/ECR. www.thornbyassociates.co.uk/latest-news/...
Housing Studies Charitable Trust Seeking New Trustees — Thornby Associates
The Housing Studies Charitable Trust (HSCT) is looking for three new members to join theBoard of Trustees, a vital part of their governance.
thornbyassociates.co.uk
New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Housing Studies Charitable Trust is seeking new Trustees to distribute proceeds from the journal to support housing education and scholarship. Please see advert and share widely. The role isn’t onerous and support important orgs and postdocs/ECR. www.thornbyassociates.co.uk/latest-news/...
Housing Studies Charitable Trust Seeking New Trustees — Thornby Associates
The Housing Studies Charitable Trust (HSCT) is looking for three new members to join theBoard of Trustees, a vital part of their governance.
thornbyassociates.co.uk
Look forward to the report, anyone have a link? @crisis-uk.bsky.social @housingevidence.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds
Benefit claimants having applications denied for being deemed too risky by housing associations, says Crisis
theguardian.com
You would think we'd be on track to freedom, given @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social, the Ministry of Housing himself, is our local MP. Yet, six years later, we're still unsafe, hostages in our own home, and paying escalating costs while the "professionals" can't even measure a building correctly.
Most people think the cladding crisis is over. It's not. 6 years after Grenfell, we're still trapped in flammable buildings, paying the price while freeholders profit. This is what it actually costs to live in the "post-Grenfell" world: 🧵
Our new paper uses regulatory theory and systems thinking to explore fresh, practical interventions that could transform the culture of compliance and improve tenants’ housing experiences in the English Private Rented Sector. 📄 Read it here: housingevidence.ac.uk/publications...
The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence
housingevidence.ac.uk
Kit Malthouse to Lammy "can he not see his inaction & cowardice is making this country irrelevant? Can he also not see the personal risk to him, given our intl obligations, that he may end up at the Hague because of his inaction?" Lammy tells Malthouse his language is unbecoming
It is very hard to see how the UK government can sign this statement, which makes it absolutely clear that it recognises that Israel is committing - as a matter of state policy - deliberate and systematic war crimes, without at a minimum cutting all military cooperation with Israel.
Reporters in Gaza from AFP are now unable to work due to them literally being starved to death by the Israeli government, but apparently these people opposing the genocide are the real terrorists 👇
Davenant 📸@marcdavenant.bsky.social · last yr.Peaceful protesters yesterday, writing the words on their placards which will convert them from ordinary citizens to terrorists in the eyes of the government and the law. Words which put them in the same legal group as Osama bin Laden. The rank absurdity of Cooper’s decision captured in one photo.
“The ultimate democratization of education may reside not in its universal availability but in its deinstitutionalization. If this comes to pass, we may find that the fabric of our lives is Canvas.” Uh oh. But look - at least Instructure is being open about its imperial ambitions!
Louise Seamster@louiseseamster.bsky.social · last yr.Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students. Oh. (This article is nominally not a press release?) www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...
When the 12yo was in mainstream primary school, a new, unsympathetic non-inclusive headteacher who arrived in Year 6, repeatedly tried to change his educational provision. The fact that the EHCP was a legal document that agreed what support he should receive was vital in protecting him. #r4today
The closing of Abrdn’s Fair Finance Trust is grim news. I had funding from them into shared ownership and found them all staff great to work with. Big loss to difficult social policy research funding landscape. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee
Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
theguardian.com
The government's tenancy reforms make it easier to fight rent hikes through a tribunal. But @rentersreformco.bsky.social finds the tribunal is awarding landlords an average rent increase of £240/month! Tenants will still be at risk of being priced out of their homes www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
third of renters could be 'forced out of their homes' despite landmark reforms
Labour’s significant Renters' Rights Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament, will ban landlords from evicting renters for no reason from their homes - but fears remain
mirror.co.uk
