What’s the difference between the first national lockdown and the second? More rough sleepers will be on the streets. I’ve tabled a Parliamentary motion asking… Read More »Early Day Motion on Covid-19 and homelessness
Dear, It has now been just over a year since you, Labour members, chose me to be your Labour candidate for Poplar and Limehouse and… Read More »Newsletter 4 December 2020
At the heart of ambitious housing targets must be giving agency back to local communities, not leaving these to algorithms. The Westferry Printworks development controversy… Read More »Westferry Printworks & Planning reform
Luxury development after luxury development continues to pop up in Poplar and Limehouse. The Government further empowered developers last week, passing statutes that further deregulate… Read More »Westferry Printworks & Permitted developments
I’m delighted to join Labour Outlook as a monthly columnist. Here’s my first piece on how we lose thousands of homes through permitted developments which… Read More »Our Housing System is Broken
The evictions ban has ended and thousands of renters are faced with the real threat of homelessness. I joined Somerford Grove renters outside billionaire landlord… Read More »Stop renter evictions protest
Households with low incomes are more likely to be overcrowded or have damp problems than higher income households, because they cannot afford to move to… Read More »Transformative Economics Post COVID
I have organised 29 cross party MPs to sign a joint letter warning of a coming ‘cliff-edge’ as the programme housing people experiencing homelessness in… Read More »Letter on homelessness crisis