Tom Kennedy

North East based - big fan of trains, beaches, building houses and the England cricket team. Work in housing policy 🏡🏗

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@thomasforth Really scratching my brain for ideas to increase British growth 🤯

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

NEW: British infrastructure projects waste billions on fish discos and bat tunnels because of dumb environmental rules.

These rules make it harder to build new infrastructure, but do almost nothing for nature.

Here’s how to solve the bat tunnel problem.

https://t.co/wBwjHNrWTq

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

2025 will be one of the most pivotal years in living memory for the housing sector https://t.co/2xvWQRurIY #ukhousing

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@ae_baldwin No city?

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

https://t.co/ZM933m8KTR

My paper is available here - https://t.co/3X9xjnIp8O

And Michael's winning paper is available here - https://t.co/n6PiAgcweP

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

V pleased that my paper on improving devolved brownfield funding has been chosen as runner up in @ThinkhouseInfo's Early Career Researcher Prize. Congratulations to Dr Michael Marshall for a fascinating and important paper on spatial distribution of non-decency in England.

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@SCP_Hughes V good point. I've seen some other examples where multiple low-demand bedsits have been merged to provide 4-bed family homes in areas with a big shortage of larger homes. As you say, funding and policy needs to reflect v different housing market realities/types of home needed

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@BenABrittain Two hundred thousand a month? 2 and a half million people a year?

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@DespoticInroad 100% - fair pay agreement for social care seems quietly very important and under-reported part of Lab policy, if they can implement it successfully.

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

Local areas (in England!!) using devolved powers to raise revenue and fund public transport. Be still my beating heart! 🚌🐝

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

I can confirm that we plan to stick with a £2 cap on single bus fares for the whole of 2025.

More detail here.👇🏻

[Northern Housing Consortium @NHC]

Our @Tom_Kennedy95 is in @insidehousing today sharing insights from our recent report 'Warm Homes, Green Jobs', including the benefits of aligning funding and policy for energy efficiency and housing quality. ⬇

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@travelling_wolf That would be deadweight, surely?

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@AaronBastani Just devolve the funding and eventually let regional/local government raise revenue itself. Much easier than PR.

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

Also on London privilege: Poverty is spread out; opportunity is concentrated. But there is no better place in Britain to be poor."

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@AntBreach Don't you think the "builders can only build if buyers can afford to buy" also belies the point that we actually also need to build a lot of new homes for market rent?

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@lukerobertblack FTSE up, gilts down, £ up since Labour came into office. Hardly "completely destabilised"?

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@Layo_FH https://t.co/ij85hgoIBa - Table 1011
https://t.co/K24OdhKg4x

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@Layo_FH This isn't necessarily an answer to your Q, but it is v interesting that c.30-40% of new affordable housing in London is social rent compared to c.15% in the rest of the country. So your change would bring London closer into line with the rest of the country.

[Tom Kennedy @Tom_Kennedy95]

@SNPforGlasgow It's 'Middlesbrough'.