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Hollie Wright @hollies.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I wrote about tax wars, the scaremongering of fleeing millionaires, and non-doms. If you think the debate is toxic now, just wait until we need *real* tax reform...

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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The UK government has chosen to cut support for millions of people already facing hardship. A 2% tax on wealth over £10 million could raise £24 billion every year – money that could transform lives. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/4kZ9gCe

Black image with a quarter cut out green. Text reads, “3/4 of British public back a tax rise on very richest instead of cuts to public spending”.

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Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is good from Andy Burnham - calling not for benefits cuts that will drive more people into poverty, but instead for integrated place-based services that recognise the complexities of people's lives and provide whole-person support. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Jobcentres should be Live Well centres — this is what that means

Our outdated state is collapsing, but unified local services can get the UK buzzing again

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There are elements of what was announced today - investment in employment support, the 'right to try' - that, along with last year's White Paper could have been a transformational agenda But crude, short-term cuts driven by HMT/No.10 will fundamentally undermine this... 🧵

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's difficult to engage in good faith in a discussion about 'compromise' proposals that dignify the phoney premise that we simply can't afford to scrap the two-child limit & benefit cap. £3.5bn would be incredible value for the poverty alleviation (& knock-on economic benefits) it would achieve

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Fe Balata @febalata.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'm thrilled to launch our @neweconomics.bsky.social and @patmillsuk.bsky.social report Exploring an Extreme Wealth Line. Our talks with millionaires, politicians, and policymakers in the past months revealed broad agreement that #extremewealth is a systemic failure neweconomics.org/2025/01/expl...

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Exploring an extreme wealth line

Insights from political figures, policy experts, and millionaires on a threshold for harmful wealth

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Councils would generally prefer onsite social housing, as a proportion of all the new homes built (31% in this case). This creates mixed tenure communities and ensures the housing definitely gets built.

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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We hear a lot about the costs of Temporary Accommodation crippling councils financially - but less about why this is. - Central Government is benefiting financially from households being in homeless accommodation rather than the PRS, because they pay just *90% of the LHA rate from 20211*

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Great to see @neweconomics.bsky.social's 'Reforming Right to Buy' in @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social's 'must read' housing reports for 2024: www.thinkhouse.org.uk/reports/2024/ Congratulations to Alex Diner & @hollies.bsky.social who led the work. Full report here: neweconomics.org/2024/05/refo...

neweconomics.org

Reforming right to buy

Options for preserving and delivering new council homes for the twenty-first century

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Hollie Wright @hollies.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Chuffed that our Reforming Right to Buy paper has been selected as a 'Must Read' by @thinkhouseinfo.bsky.social alongside some truly excellent housing reports from this year - including Shelter's wonderful Brick by Brick! Check out our work here: neweconomics.org/2024/05/refo...

neweconomics.org

Reforming right to buy

Options for preserving and delivering new council homes for the twenty-first century

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Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

DWP official tells PAC hearing that it estimates that 45% of households in receipt of LHA had shortfall against their rent as of August 2024 [with rents currently rising at 8.7% a year and LHA rates frozen again from April 2025]

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Joseph Elliott @jelliott94.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

*Brand New* Tenant Satisfaction Measures published today, the revival of a tool for consumer regulation post-Grenfell. Results are very poor for Social Landlord performance on Shared Ownership in particular, a third are dissatisfied with overall service and, results look bad across many metrics.

Graphs of results of TSMs for tenants and shared owners by metric

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Rachelle Earwaker @rachelleearwaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New private rent stats out today for Oct 24 show an annual increase of 8.7% in GB and 10.5% in London, equating to £105 more per month on average in GB and £204 in London, compared to Oct 23. These are big rises, and come on the back of the decision taken to keep LHA frozen at the Budget. 🧵 1/x

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New @neweconomics.bsky.social research out today shows that removing 'hope value' from the price councils have to pay for land could reduce the cost of building the 90,000 new social homes we need each year by a quarter, saving £4.5bn www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/scrappi...

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Scrapping hope value would slash cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn, new report finds

A new report has found that scrapping hope value for landowners would slash the cost of building 90,000 social homes a year by £4.5bn.

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