Decent homes for everyone

The UK currently faces a housing crisis. Since 2010 we’ve seen a steep drop in investment for new affordable homes; billions of pounds cut from housing benefit; inaction on short-term lets; soaring rents in the private rented sector; and significant cuts to funding for homelessness services.

Housing is consistently the number one issue residents contact me about in my regular advice surgeries, with many thousands of families in Hornsey & Wood Green struggling in desperately overcrowded homes.

It’s not good enough and in Parliament I continue to push for the Government to invest in building more of the homes our community so urgently needs. I also call for 50% of all new housing developments to be genuinely affordable.

My latest updates on this issue

Update: Thames Water burst main on Church Lane, Hornsey

I’ve been in touch with Thames Water this morning following the burst water trunk main on Church Lane, Hornsey which I know is affecting many homes in the area. I’m sorry if you’re one of them. Below are the latest update I’ve had from Thames Water on the work they’re…

Sign my petition: Save Mary Feilding Guild

Sign my petition to Save Mary Feilding Guild I’m absolutely appalled at the news that the new owner of the Mary Feilding Guild has told the residents they need to leave by the end of May. This is a shocking way to treat vulnerable older residents, giving them eviction notices…

End the cladding scandal – watch my speech

Tonight, Labour’s motion to protect people trapped in unsafe, unsellable flats and pursue those responsible for this cladding scandal passed 263-0. The Tories couldn’t even be bothered to vote. What a shameful way to treat struggling residents. In my speech, I shared the stories of some of the constituents who’ve…

Haringey New Local Plan: first steps engagement

Haringey Council are currently holding their first steps engagement on their new local plan. Full details can be found here and you have until 1 February 2021 to submit your comments at this stage. Here’s a copy of the letter I’ve sent setting out some of the key issues I’d…

My column in the Ham & High: Government must support people off the streets

In my latest column for the Ham & High, I wrote about the rough sleeping crisis in our city which has been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. Read it online here or below: “1,136, that’s the Government’s own cautious estimate of the number of people sleeping rough in London tonight.…

EWS1 certificates – response from the Housing Minister

Over recent weeks I’ve been contacted by a number of constituents who have found themselves in the impossible situation of being unable to sell, mortgage or insure their home because of the confusion and uncertainty caused by the new EWS1 certificate. It’s become clear that these new regulations, brought in…

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