Jacob Dimitriou

Director @housing_justice England, Dad, Former Cllr & Labour Staffer, West Ham devotee. Treasurer @chrleft 🇨🇾 Roman Catholic

[Jacob Dimitriou @jacobquagliozzi]

As everyone knows, when you’ve got a big, intractable problem, you send for an East Ender to sort it out. Delighted to welcome @rushanaraali to her brief, we’ve got a huge job to do get back on track on homelessness. Looking forward to working with Rushanara to do just that.

[Jacob Dimitriou @jacobquagliozzi]

@Lola__McEvoy is going to be an absolute star of this and future parliaments.

[Josh Self @Josh_Self_]

Newly elected Labour MP @Lola__McEvoy mocks Nigel Farage's “polished” maiden speech “that he's had 21 years to prepare”

“Fair point”, responds @Nigel_Farage

[Josh Self @Josh_Self_]

Newly elected Labour MP @Lola__McEvoy mocks Nigel Farage's “polished” maiden speech “that he's had 21 years to prepare”

“Fair point”, responds @Nigel_Farage

[Joseph Elliott @J_Elliott94]

National Audit Office report published today concludes homelessness in England at its highest level recorded (since 2000).

Identifies risk that expenditure on homelessness and temporary accommodation (TA) may bankrupt councils, as some spend up to half their net budgets on TA.

[Euripides L Evriviades 🇨🇾🇪🇺 @eevriviades]

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” — Virgil

Dies Irae. #Turkey invades #Cyprus #OTD 20/7/1974. Today, 50 years later, 36.2% of Cyprus still remains under military occupation with 40K troops; 57% of its coastline controlled; 200K people displaced; countless missing persons; and egregious violations of human rights, international law, and UN resolutions, all met with impunity.

Our goal: A just and viable settlement, free from occupation troops and overlords; one #Cyprus #Kıbrıs #Κύπρος for all its people, as a unified member of the EU.

#CyprusWholeAndFree #Cyprus50Years
#HandsOffCyprus #20July1974 #FreeCyprus #NoOverlords #CyProb #LestWeForget #NeverForget #EndTheOccupation #NATO #Cyprus50YearsOfOccupation

[Jacob Dimitriou @jacobquagliozzi]

@Hamish4Lincs Congrats Hamish!

[Becky Rice @rice_becky]

🙏Thank you very much for the really warm welcome at the Light Project - getting insights from guests and staff was really helpful and will be influential in @Housing_Justice campaigning and development work. Hope to visit again some day😀 and we will feedback our findings soon💙

[Susie D @SusieD_LON]

Calling #ukhousing #research folks. We’re commissioning a rapid review of #London #LocalGovernment approaches to #TemporaryAccommodation to inform campaigns and advocacy. Deadline 16 June. Please retweet and tag relevant folks. Thanks!

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: Rough sleeping has risen in England for the first time since 2017. Number estimated to be sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2022 is 3061. That’s:

⬆️ 26% from 2021

⬇️ 35% from 2017.

⬆️ 74% from 2010.

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

The A-Team help form a militant farm workers union. Most based episode in the history of television.

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Instead regulation moved to the Homes and Communities Agency, who had a remit to look at governance and financial viability. A key focus was ensuring the sector was attractive to private finance - basically a reassurance to lenders that they would not lose money

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

When it was scrapped, Professor Martin Cave, the academic who had led the review which led to its creation warned the move “will leave tenants and groups of tenants without the protection they need against incompetent landlords”

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

The TSA was a fledgling organisation set up under Gordon Brown to provide some regulation of the social housing sector's performance with regard to housing standards, in response to concerns that there was limited oversight in this area.

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

In 2010 when the Conservatives took office, they enacted a 'bonfire of the QUANGOs', where a bunch of government agencies were scrapped over night. This included the Tenant Services Authority (TSA) which housing minister Grant Shapps memorably branded 'toast'

[Jacob Dimitriou @jacobquagliozzi]

Is there a better illustration of the gaping chasm between rhetoric and reality.

[Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew]

Incredible moment where Suella Braverman inadvertently admits the absurdity of the UK asylum system.

[Henry Pryor @HenryPryor]

19th July 2022. East London, UK. Just four months ago.

[Michael Angus @MichaelNAngus]

If you are looking for unique #Christmas #cards then check out @homelessmade.
Designs by people with lived experience of homelessness, the artists receive 50% of the profits. @BaronsProject, which I lead, use the remainder to help more people off the streets.
Make a difference.

[Jacob Dimitriou @jacobquagliozzi]

Boris Johnson will make an intervention on Saturday’s Telegraph.

[Hamish Falconer MP @HFalconerMP]

The selection process to find the next Labour candidate for Lincoln has just opened and I'm proud to say that I'll be putting myself forward. I'm honoured to be backed by so many dedicated local campaigners and most of Lincoln's hardworking Labour councillors.

[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

Jeremy Hunt may delay the vital care cap reform, which would have helped protect people affected by dementia from catastrophic care costs.

Join @Vicky_McClure to call on MPs and sign our open letter, and make dementia the priority it needs to be: https://t.co/GFrYlkzfq7