Could street votes be the key to unlocking the UK’s housing crisis? Our new paper with @britishprogress.org explores how ministers could turn to residents to help create thousands of new homes.

The Next Big Housing Lever: Street Votes — Labour Together In expensive cities around the world, resident-led schemes like street votes have successfully boosted housebuilding. Where residents are able to drive change, the tangible benefits go to those commun...

Make sure to read our paper with Labour Together here:

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

Street votes - YIMBY Alliance

You can see more people who support street votes on @yimbyalliance.org’s site:

yimbyalliance.org/street-votes/

@stianwestlake.bsky.social, @jfingleton.bsky.social, @droojb.bsky.social, @tonelangengen.bsky.social
and @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social

Street votes would never have made it this far without the help and support of some amazing people, including Rico Wojtulewicz, Shreya Nanda, Marc Harris, Joe Dharampal-Hornby, Max Mosley...

Britain needs new homes to grow. Street votes are backed by @philipsalter.bsky.social @tenentrepreneurs.bsky.social
and by some of the UK’s most innovative founders and entrepreneurs who signed TEN’s Strong Foundations letter, including Matt Clifford

Students across Britain are routinely crammed into expensive, dilapidated converted homes. Street votes could see low quality houseshares transformed into modern student homes or flats for post-graduates.

To get Britain growing again we need to build new homes in the places they’re most needed. Street votes will deliver thousands of new homes close to good jobs and will help revitalise our cities.

Professors Tony Travers and Jonathan Haskel support street votes.

Street votes give local residents the power to say yes to new homes and control over the future, and design of their local area. Architects like @jayvictoria8.bsky.social, @russellcurtis.com @benderbyshire.bsky.social and @rietteoos back street votes.

Street votes will build homes in our well connected cities and suburbs, not produce sprawl. That’s why they’re backed by transport campaigners like Chris and Roger.

@anyamartin.bsky.social and @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social have been fighting for better prices and conditions for renters. They both see the opportunity that street votes bring: lower rents and better homes.

Senior planning lawyers have backed street votes for their ability to help unblock planning and get local residents to say yes to new homes.

Housing associations are part of Britain’s vital social housing backbone. Street votes have been endorsed by leading voices at some of the largest HAs in the country.

Labour Together’s Director of Devolution, @jpspencer.bsky.social, on why giving local communities more say matters.

Both @benjudah.bsky.social and Issy Waite back street votes because of the huge benefit they can bring to local communities and their power to deliver new homes.

Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis Dehqani, Bishop of Chelmsford and Lead Bishop for Housing supports the potential for street votes to help local people become leading voices for positive change in their area.

Mirte co-founded the Carbon Balance Initiative.

Street votes will deliver homes in places that are best for communities and the climate: in our existing cities close to good jobs and public transport.

Green Alliance wrote in support of street votes because higher densities in our existing cities are one of the best ways to tackle the climate crisis.

@tomchance.bsky.social knows how important local communities are to delivering homes and the high barriers for community land trusts to create affordable plans.

Street votes have also been supported by a wide range of progressive think tanks, policy organisations and campaigns.

Labour MP for Milton Keynes North and co-chair of Labour Growth Group @chriscurtis94.bsky.social, is a tireless advocate for more and better homes.

We’re extremely pleased that he has expressed his support for street votes.

We’re delighted that @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, Secretary of Tribune Group, founder of the Living Standards Coalition, and founder of Rethinking Economics, has endorsed street votes.

The Next Big Housing Lever: Street Votes — Labour Together In expensive cities around the world, resident-led schemes like street votes have successfully boosted housebuilding. Where residents are able to drive change, the tangible benefits go to those commun...

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

The Next Big Housing Lever: Street Votes — Labour Together In expensive cities around the world, resident-led schemes like street votes have successfully boosted housebuilding. Where residents are able to drive change, the tangible benefits go to those commun...

Much of the work has already been done to put communities in the driver’s seat with street votes. MHCLG just needs to implement the rules. With @labourtogether.bsky.social, we set out the final steps that the Government should take to build thousands of new homes with popular support.

Street votes learn from international schemes that have delivered tens of thousands of homes a year in cities like Seoul and Tel Aviv. Applied here, the evidence suggests up to 30,000 new homes a year in the places we need them most - with the first homes delivered before the end of this Parliament.

And because ordinary people are driving the change on small sites, new homes can be built faster than the big schemes relying on big developers.

But building in cities and towns is difficult. Under street votes, instead of councils, builders, and residents fighting each other, the community can push for more homes themselves.

Many planning reforms have focused on big builders and big undeveloped sites, but we can do more. Street votes could help existing communities grow and expand. Building in towns and cities adds much-needed homes where people want to live, it’s more sustainable and grows a resilient local economy.

Street votes let neighbours comeneighbours can come together, work with an architect, agree a new plan for their street, and vote. If they say yes, building happens with their consent, on their terms, with benefits flowing to the people who already live there.

What if the residents of a street could collectively decide to build more homes on it - and share directly in the benefits?

That's street votes. In our new paper with @labourtogether.bsky.social we set out how community-led street votes could help Steve Reed build 1.5 million new homes.