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George Lansbury on the Poplar Workhouse, 1892: no kindness ever shown. On entry you were stripped, searched, fumigated, no underwear provided, no “sanitary clothes of any sort for women of any age”. Mice droppings in the gruel. 2yrs later he got an inquiry & the team were sacked

📈 A shameful rise in child homelessness. Today’s stats must not be ignored. Children are being robbed of stability in temporary accommodation, yet the solution is simple; on 11 June at the Spending Review the government must make the decision to invest in social housing.

This 👇 is a political choice. And a direct result of decades of failure to #BuildSocialHousing - failures the government could reverse at the spending review if it chooses. Please help us Shelter persuade them england.shelter.org.uk/support_us/cam…

We also have visual presentations in the breaks from English Heritage Jill Stewart Harshada Deshpande and Ruth Crowley as well as closing remarks courtesy of Professor John Gold. #LCC60 #LCC60yearson #LCClegacy60

My brand new mid-century modern photo book is now on sale - 320 pages, 162 pictures. Essays from Owen Hatherley and Barnabas Calder and introduction by Catherine Croft, C20 Society.

You can read my review of the book and interview with Rob here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/boo…

Really honoured to be presenting at this and looking forward to listening to all the speakers about the amazing LCC legacy #LCC60

Powerful call for action here…collective action…wider than health…education, social, + environmental! Thanks for the challenge Prof Monica Lakhanpaul !!

#LCC60 - you should be very proud of yourselves Dr Rosamund Lily West (she/her) Ruth Lang Dr Dawn Pereira for a great 😊 friendly and well organised conference on the LCC legacy that everyone clearly enjoyed.

´Spring in the Midlands’ 1977. My parents were rehoused from house in maze of dull grey streets to spacious council house. My dad grew chrysanthemums and tomatoes in greenhouses at the back. ⁦Grim Art⁩ ⁦Spitalfields Life⁩ ⁦Richard Morris⁩ ⁦Barewall Art Gallery⁩

Ahead of the #SpendingReview in June, we've brought together some of this country’s leading economists, industry figures, and policy experts, to set out the economic and fiscal case for investing in social homes. #BuildSocialHousing🏠

1/ I'm looking forward to speaking at the Bristol Radical History Festival on 26 April on 'Housing the People: the Contested Role of the State from Pre-Industrial Times to the 1930s'. There's a great range of speakers and topics - see the next post: brh.org.uk/site/events/pu…

England's temporary accommodation crisis is leaving record numbers of children without a permanent home – and damaging their health, wellbeing and education. We're calling for action to improve conditions and outcomes for children in temporary accommodation ⬇️

An appreciation of the post-war consensus architecture of the UK when Britain built for the people. Brand new book available here: stayfreepublishing.co.uk and review by the excellent Municipal Dreams municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/boo…

The verdict? Utterly shameful. Today Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee released a report highlighting the damaging impact of growing up homeless in temporary accommodation, including the appalling conditions faced by thousands of children. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17/h…

London boroughs have one officer for every 7,500 rental homes - leaving enforcement deserts where “nothing will happen” if tenants complain about poor quality housing. Research by me for The Londoner the-londoner.co.uk/why-is-londons…

I'm very sad to learn of the recent death of Nick Hedges (b 1943) - a superb documentary photographer of housing and much else and a generous man. His photographs for Shelter of appalling housing conditions in the UK in the late 1960s and 70s did much to encourage reform.

This looks really interesting Municipal Dreams

💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget. My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn: theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

social housing…. courtyard housing we’ve just finished in ilford