Chris Bailey

Londoner, urbanist, nonprofit board member and social entrepreneur: Social enterprise; Revenue generation; Communications: Social purpose. But above all Housing

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Did you see the BBC chart that said defence spending has fallen as welfare spending has risen? (see here: https://t.co/aE2AQWukYb)

It didn't look quite right to us.

Check out Ruth Curtice's latest substack on how the defence versus welfare debate has been misrepresented. https://t.co/UsUs2Qk90K

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Thames Water lifeline ‘not enough’ to avert state takeover."

Thames Water has been bankrupt for years and customers have been paying for their own exploitation. Govt needs to end it, TODAY!

https://t.co/0AasAM14DW

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

‘Left to Rot: How Governments Have Betrayed Us and How We Fix It’ – an extract from Daniel Hewitt’s new book https://t.co/Q5ln1UTuYl #ukhousing

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

We published a report last year with evidence that the widely cited Henley & Partners wealth migration reports appeared to contain fabricated data.

H&P have just published their latest report, and it contains no migration statistics. They've dumped their previous approach.

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

Never forget working with someone who had their asylum application denied twice after coming to the UK physically battered and a victim of FGM. I watched a video of her sister being murdered in a field and dad’s home burnt down after she fled to the UK.

If it was left to the Home Office they would have willingly deported her back to be killed.

[Edward Morello MP @EdwardMorelloWD]

Earlier I asked Ministers what the Government was doing about excessive service charges and exit fees in the retirement property sector.

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

"an awful lot of housing to keep intentionally empty when you’re pissing away vast amounts of public money to private landlords on keeping people in really shit accommodation, which is going to cost us all more as a society in future – as a direct result”
https://t.co/NUa6nXLipp

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

Government considering a ban on builders/developers being able to choose their own building control inspectors...

This would be a big and necessary change to a broken system

https://t.co/ybXLJ0lcwe

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

The Labour Party understands trickle-down economics doesn’t work.

So why back trickle-down housing?

Let developers build expensive homes and hope crumbs filter down. It's not worked in 40 years!

We need a need-led approach: build social rent & affordable homes at scale.

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

'303,185 long-term vacant dwellings in England in 2025, an increase of 14.5% from 2024.. “The rising number is concerning, given the scale of the housing challenge.. But is also indicative of the opportunity that exists within existing housing stock"
https://t.co/KHi3NCmdCo

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

Long-term empty homes in London rose 23% last year - up 138% in a decade. Here's why: a business model based on serving overseas investors #BuyToLeave or #BuyToAirBnB not meeting the need for affordable homes for Londoners - a decade of building #TheWrongHousing - over 100k empty

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

'Everything we’re doing is too small, too slow, and too late.. we’ve just been accumulating vacant properties
There's a sense we are literally building empty homes and certainly not building the homes that Londoners need’
London empties up 138% in a decade
https://t.co/JVSiYLv1Ti

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Wanting growth. Go green! CBI report shows Britain’s green economy growing by ten per cent a year, as are green jobs, now totalling over a million, paying better and more productive than others. Scrapping net zero would be economic madness.

https://t.co/31rbt1Cixn

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

'People have a different priority altogether [from just Build Baby Build]. They want housing to be more affordable to buy or rent, reflected in the popularity of rent controls and ideas to boost the availability of social housing'
It is time we stopped building #TheWrongHousing

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

London's empy homes and the failed housing policies which created them..
Over half the homeless families in Temporary Accommodation in England are Londoners, at a time when the capital is building ever greater stocks of empty homes ..up 138% in a decade!
https://t.co/JVSiYLv1Ti

[Sophie @SophieLB1]

The anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy is coming up. So many people I speak to don't realise there are still SO MANY unsafe buildings. It is beyond belief that successive governments have failed to get a grip on a national scandal #endourcladdingscandal
https://t.co/ZYcaBQLife

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

Did chanting “build baby build” while wearing red baseball caps cause Labour to lose control of Enfield Council? Local people in Crews Hill - even Labour voters - tell me they found it concerning

https://t.co/HVHvSzA8En

[Chris Hinchliff MP @CHinchliffMP]

Labour inherited a housing crisis - we must not inherit the culture of sleaze that helped create it.

Developer lobbyists donate to shape politics.

They want expensive, low quality homes and bigger profits.

Sign my petition to ban developer donations.

https://t.co/o6yzhnak91

[Action on Empty Homes @emptyhomes @emptyhomes]

This is why it's critical that new innovations like the short lets (or Airbnb) register and a national register of private sector landlords use the Unique Property Reference Number system used for Land Registry Data - otherwise England and Ireland are in a similar position

[Stewart Home @stewarthome1]

Some of what is called residential housing isn’t even that, It’s basically a piece of London that’s been sold to an overseas entity that’s now sitting on it. That’s overseas-owned residential property, 45% of which is in London, & much of which is empty. https://t.co/3D6FYeHdx3