Stephen Delahunty

News editor @insidehousing - focus on building safety. Contact: [email protected]

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Wouldn’t it be good if we had a politics that takes climate change — and adaptation — seriously on days like this?

Britain’s infrastructure, urban environments, and housing stock is completely unready for climate change.

Unfortunately adaptation is woke nonsense, etc.

[DisappointedIdealist @DisIdealist]

Labour: “We will form local administrations with Tories, Reform, LibDems, but working with Greens is formally banned!”

Also Labour: “Why oh why won’t our fellow progressives, the Greens, force their voters to vote for us?”

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Govt ministers and officials have been advised not to meet with, or attend conferences sponsored by, seven companies criticised, in the Grenfell report (or any of their former executives, or individuals directly criticised):

https://t.co/AqdVmOkUVz

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Fiona Garrett lost her son, Joshua, aged 23 when a railing on a balcony in a housing association property gave way earlier this year.

She's pushing for a duty of candour and mandatory inspections for safety barriers. She has a petition here:

https://t.co/gQv4riLgMF

[Finance News @ftfinancenews]

Leaseholders pay for ‘years of underfunding’ in UK’s ageing housing stock https://t.co/6sBNaOA0zn

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

MPs say government must do more on new build home quality https://t.co/a4pNjfa2k0 #ukhousing

[John Merrick @johnpmerrick]

Excellent from Daniela Gabor. One of the dangers of everything being tied to the market is that any notion of the common good is thrown by the wayside. This needs to change, otherwise the country’s decline will only get worse

[Stephen Delahunty @StephenD_]

Update from today on the police investigation into Grenfell. Trial now not expected until 2029 https://t.co/2ZeUExoJPG

[Stephen Delahunty @StephenD_]

Latest by me on how building safety crisis is effecting group of leaseholders in London https://t.co/81ZGzMRnDQ

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

The discourse online about Social Housing over the last few days has highlighted the hugely misinformed and quite frankly rotten attitudes and stigma towards those living in social and in need of social housing.

A stigma highlighted throughout the Grenfell enquiry.

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

New report calls on government to commit extra £100bn to SAHP for social rent homes https://t.co/TwMhqxsYdB #ukhousing

[Joseph Elliott @J_Elliott94]

Social housing in London has taken a lot of heat on twitter this weekend.

Are social renters disproportionately economically inactive people? (Who should be moved / encouraged out of the capital to make way for productive young professionals?)

Wanted to look into the numbers ⬇️

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

Inside Housing journalist wins BSME Talent Award https://t.co/Mjtmm5EcUS #ukhousing

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

🚨 NEW!

Our report out today concludes rent controls can ease the pressure on renters, without jeopardising the private rented sector. A rent control could:

- Make renters nearly £1200 a year better off by 2030
- Reduce the housing benefit bill by £600m

Here's how 👇

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

Meanwhile...newly elected Green mayors in London are demanding rent controls in the King's Speech tomorrow after running on a platform of rent control in Hackney and Lewisham respectively ...

[Stephen Delahunty @StephenD_]

Case will be heard new year that could have implications for social housing sector

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

HMRC to face tribunal over potential VAT bill of more than £600m for cladding repairs https://t.co/yXuH2c7trp #ukhousing

[Stephen Delahunty @StephenD_]

New update here by me and @JackTShaw on TA use in the capital. Raised issues on quality and data collection by London councils

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

Exclusive: more than 700 people died in temporary accommodation in London in past three years https://t.co/nZNn2LnkIf #ukhousing

[Abi Whistance @abi_whist]

I've been on holiday! And by holiday, I mean annual leave...moving house.

ICYMI while I was away: the 9th (?) instalment of our Big Help saga was published last week.

New documents claim Big Help’s bosses owe over £17mn 👇

https://t.co/Mk3plvym5w

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Steve Reed boasting: "If you look at just last year, we built more council homes than in any year for 35 years"

In 2024-25 just 2,260 council homes were built & in the same period 8,656 were sold through right to buy.

[Inside Housing @insidehousing]

Exclusive: At least 485 arrests made under Vagrancy Act 1824 since Labour government came to power https://t.co/zsJCnbVnTR #ukhousing