Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter

📢 Austerity squeezed public housing spending. Does repair spending matter for tenants' health? Higher repairs and maintenance spending per dwelling is linked to better mental and physical wellbeing for residents living in inadequate conditions. Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Damp places, unhappy faces: local authority housing repairs and maintenance expenditure on residents’ wellbeing in England

This paper examines the relationship between local authority housing repairs and maintenance expenditure and the wellbeing of residents in England, in the context of significant funding cuts, betwe...

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📢 Austerity squeezed public housing spending. Does repair spending matter for tenants' health? Higher repairs and maintenance spending per dwelling is linked to better mental and physical wellbeing for residents living in inadequate conditions. Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Damp places, unhappy faces: local authority housing repairs and maintenance expenditure on residents’ wellbeing in England

This paper examines the relationship between local authority housing repairs and maintenance expenditure and the wellbeing of residents in England, in the context of significant funding cuts, betwe...

tandfonline.com

Very late to this but it’s very good on the history of an estate and a regeneration project that tells a housing story of the last 60 years

The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The housing estate that Blair forgot. In 1997, Tony Blair visited the Aylesbury estate in south London to promise its residents they would no longer be ‘forgotten people’. Three decades later, many are still waiting for things to get better. ✍️ @rowanmoore.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4a2kEIP

It's the bollocks the political class come out with to prole-wash themselves - comfortably-off middle class people cherry-picking the most poverty-coded aspect of their life or background to up their chances in authenticity Top Trumps

👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞@jacktindale.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I also think there's an additional coda to this which is that "I was the first person in my family to go to university" isn't even that unusual, it's very much the norm until the 1980s, surely? Even today only about 40 percent of school leavers go on to do a degree.

⭐️ Super excited to share that my first PhD paper is out now in Race and Social Problems (open access)! link.springer.com/article/10.1... I examine whether COVID-19 related anti-Asian racism affected political party support among Chinese, East/Southeast Asian (ESEA), and South Asian Canadians:

How Xenophobia Shapes Political Party Support: Evidence from COVID-19 in Canada - Race and Social Problems

Racialized or ethnically marginalized groups typically have strong loyalties to particular political parties, but can these group loyalties be undermined? In this paper, I investigate whether racist b...

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New paper by @vxltan.bsky.social: She finds that racist but group-specific political discourse (i.e., towards Chinese Canadians during Covid) undermines a sense of linked fate among those who share a panethnic identity (e.g., as Asian). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How Xenophobia Shapes Political Party Support: Evidence from COVID-19 in Canada - Race and Social Problems

Racialized or ethnically marginalized groups typically have strong loyalties to particular political parties, but can these group loyalties be undermined? In this paper, I investigate whether racist b...

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I'm in council housing and it is truly one of my biggest fears that I end up back in private rentals. We want/need a bigger place but the insecurity risk and extra cost that would be 3x what we pay currently is just not worth it.

Neftalem Emanuel@neftalememanuel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Have you, a family member or friend moved from council housing to renting privately? I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure. Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇 #socialhousing #renting

Have you, a family member or friend moved from council housing to renting privately? I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure. Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇 #socialhousing #renting

Affordable housing stock has fallen drastically relative to population since the early 1980s ⤵️ buff.ly/pQXp2Sc

Honoured to receive this year’s Barnett Prize for my paper exploring the relationship between council housing repairs and maintenance spending and residents’ wellbeing. I’m grateful to the committee for their recognition and @aaronreeves.bsky.social who helped shape and refine the paper!

Oxford Social Policy and Intervention@dspi-oxford.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations @neftalememanuel.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Barnett Prize for his paper: ‘Damp Places, Unhappy Faces: Analysing the Impact of Housing Repairs & Maintenance Expenditure on Local Authority Residents Wellbeing in England between 2013-2022’ 👏 www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/barn...

Public investment in social housing will be crucial over the coming Parliament to reverse decades of chronic under-investment. Read more ➡️ https://buff.ly/4jdDb8W

Better housing quality cannot explain why ethnic minorities spend more of their income on housing than White British adults. Many minority adults face high housing cost to income ratios, and are also more likely to live in damp homes.

Kudos to Wandsworth, Hackney and Westminster for doing their part in tackling the housing crisis! This proactive move can help ensure more Londoners have the homes they need while reinvesting the premiums on council taxes back into the community. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Thousands of London homeowners face double council tax from April

Struggling boroughs are set to increase bills for some property owners in a bid to bring in more cash and help ease the housing crisis

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