Housing Affordability

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Aug 29, 2025 • via The Telegraph

The Deputy Prime Minister's Three-Home Shell Game: A Masterclass in Legal Tax Avoidance

Angela Rayner's £40,000 Stamp Duty Dodge

Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary responsible for both council tax and election law, has orchestrated a property arrangement that saved her £40,000 in stamp duty while simultaneously ensuring taxpayers foot her London council tax bill.

Aug 11, 2025 • via The Guardian

Twenty Years of Warnings, Zero Years of Action: How Britain's Housing Crisis Became a Climate Catastrophe

The heatwaves are here to stay, and so are the consequences of our inaction.

While ministers debate subsidizing air conditioning in 2025, the UK housing stock remains fundamentally unfit for the climate conditions we've already experienced. The 40°C temperatures that struck in 2022 weren't a distant possibility requiring decades of preparation—they were the arrival of a predicted reality that successive governments chose to ignore.

Aug 9, 2025 • via i Paper

The Homelessness Minister Who Creates Homelessness:

Rushanara Ali's Dual Role as Advocate and Landlord

While Labour's homelessness minister Rushanara Ali denounces "private renters being exploited" in Westminster, she simultaneously evicted four tenants from her East London townhouse to increase the rent by 21 percent. The same politician championing legislation to prevent "unreasonable rent increases" raised her own rental price from £3,300 to £4,000 per month - a £700 monthly increase that would cost new tenants an additional £8,400 annually.