The new campaign for social housing is something to Shout about The message of the new Shout campaign is loud and clear: put social housing back on the agenda in 2014, says John Healey

I wasn’t the only teenager there. @lucyferman.bsky.social was there with her mum and went on to a stellar #ukhousing career. We didn’t meet until 2014/15 where are shared roots came up as we campaigned for #SocialHousing at #SocialRent with #SHOUT www.theguardian.com/housing-netw...

Three in five homes should be social rent under new guidance for Social and Affordable Homes Programme Homes England has published new guidance for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme ahead of the launch in February 2026.

I'm old enough to remember when 0% was for #SocialRent. This is great news. @tomemurtha.bsky.social @stevehilditch.bsky.social

"3 in 5 homes should be social rent under new guidance for Social & Affordable Homes Programme" #UKhousing

Thank you @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social #AngelaRayner

The UK needs more of the right kinds of homes in the right places - #SocialRent housing especially. Any significant level of building should use #BrownfieldFirst, #TransitOrientedDevelopment and medium-density policies.
Instead we get urban sprawl, "cowpat estates" - because they're more profitable.

Ha, I’d forgotten that Tim! I was particularly annoyed to be accused of being ‘evidence free’ when I’d written the equivalent of all the Harry Potter books put together on what was going wrong in housing. It took a while but most hsg assocs now fully support #socialrent.

The best idea came at the lowest point for social housing. Still totally relevant. #shout #socialrent

An audience of tenants and housing professionals listens to Mark Pragnell of Capital Economics make the economic case for social housing

Our Panel of speakers to respond to the report's findings

Colin Wiles of SHOUT holding a copy of the Parker Morris report Homes for today and tomorrow outside the Parker Morris Hall in the Abbey Centre.

The front cover of the SHOUT NFA report Building New Social Rent Homes

OTD ten years ago this happened
@martinhwheatley.bsky.social introduced our distinguished panel in the #ParkerMorris Hall of the Abbey Centre in Westminster to launch the SHOUT #CapitalEconomics Report. Our costed modest proposal of 250,000 new homes a year with 100,000 at #SocialRent #BuildToSave

Just two paragraphs on #SocialRent in the 2015 AHP prospectus. The sector should have refused to play the Huhffordable Rent scam.

What's morally reprehensible is pursuing destruction of the planning system for #CarDependentSprawl, destroying land vital for #FoodSecurity, #WaterSecurity, drainage, flood-control, biodiversity + increasing greenhouse gas emissions into the bargain.
Poverty needs #SocialRent homes, not sprawl.

In the 2nd blog from our series on the next generation of New Towns, Hugh Ellis explores the burning question: how should they be funded?

🗣️ Blog: Paying for a new generation of New Towns – reflections from the past
🔗 www.tcpa.org.uk/paying-for-a...

#NewTowns #DevelomentCorporation #SocialRent

Hackney reveals architects’ designs for fresh wave of infill council housing Hackney Council has revealed yet-to-be-submitted proposals for five new council housing schemes on infill sites across the London borough

🏘️🏘️ #HousingMatters

RSVP @hackneycouncil.bsky.social re the funding model for #Hackney's 100% #SocialRent #housing schemes 👇 @news.architectsjournal.co.uk

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/hackney...

> @annaminton.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social @heathernstaff.bsky.social

Hundred-year wait for family-size social housing in parts of England, study finds Charities condemn ‘national scandal’ and call for pledge to build 90,000 social homes a year to meet demand

The best time to build #SocialHousing for #SocialRent was 15 years ago, the next best time is now www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Inside Housing https://www.insidehousing.co.uk>... Gove says he would 'like to see' 30000 new social rented homes per year 19 Jul 2023 - Housing secretary Michael Gove has pledged to build 30,000 new social homes per year to tackle the housing crisis.

Inside Housing www.insidehousing.co.uk In full: Theresa May's speech to Housing 2019 27 Jun 2019 - "Social housing has become a victim of the single-minded drive to homeownership," says Theresa May in her speech to #CIHHousing #ukhousing.

From experience all parties discover the solution to the #HousingCrisis is to build #socialhousing at #socialrent at scale when in opposition or out of power, see exhibit A and B below. They are less keen when faced with Treasury PSBR - bring on GGFD

Social housing rent policy could unlock 240,000 homes, say BPF The BPF have stated that a social housing rent policy with a ten-year rent settlement could unlock more investment

According to evidence submitted to the MHCLG by the BPF the Government could gain an additional £20bn private capital with a ten-year rent settlement.

Social housing rent policy could unlock 240,000 homes, say BPF https://buff.ly/3W7q0fO #socialrent #policy #finance

First building at iconic London gasholder site ‘tops out’ | London Daily News A major development milestone was celebrated last week Tuesday 26th November at St William’s Regent’s View on The Canal development in this key City fringe location. The topping out of the development...

First building at iconic London gasholder site ‘tops out’ https://buff.ly/3CWN4qK #news #london #londonnews #development #newhomes #socialrent #bethnalgreen

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What else is a #library for if not for stories?
I do love the meanwhile garden in #SomersTown
How do you feel when you get #StPancrasHA #SocialRent flat?
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Social rent homes in England fall by more than quarter of a million in decade Charities have called on all political parties to address the ‘shameful record’ on social housing and build more homes

10 years ago some of us founded #SHOUT to campaign for social housing at social rent. Our modest proposal was for 40% of the 250,000 new homes needed each year should be for #SocialRent. If we'd won there'd be 1,000,000 new tenancies by now @tomemurtha.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

I’m glad to see the 50k @scotgov affordable homes milestone being met. Loads more to do in this space for the sector and industry over the next few years so we can see more social rent homes, at pace (which are net zero) #housing #community #socialrent