Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 16hThis is how we reported it back in 2021 www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/croydon... 031
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Imagine being wealthy enough to sign your kid up for Dulwich College, and still feeling it’s okay to ask the school to cut bursaries because poor you it’s like £32k a year not £28k a year anymore, gross. And the college is entertaining it 🫠 092
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Rage bait on booktok lol The top comment is about em Forster being a misogynist 👀 110
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Consider the current five year pipeline versus the actual peak of post war housing construction by councils > what will councils need to radically increase these plans? 122
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/202624 hours since Thames Water opened its new water fountain in the middle of Dulwich 143
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hang on, what happened to them turning into AI bird or whatever? 000
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026He's indicating here he's not committed on the idea of forcibly evicting social housing tenants based on nationality. However, it's not a retraction, and he seems to be saying it's based on "dozens of anecdotes" heard by Reform👁️ 121
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026At this point I have to admit I feel only admiration and jealously for whoever came up with the la mieux pony universe, I would not have imagined there was a market for toy hay nets to feed your toy pony at the cost of forty English pounds 111
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I’m not online enough to understand the government’s meme posts 000
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Back in 2021, I had the idea for a data story on how many of the homes that housing associations built were rated EPC A (the highest energy efficiency score). Back then, the answer was a minuscule 1.5%. We've just redone this story for 2026 and it's up to more than 16%. 2104
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I’m quite enjoying this book I picked up second hand, but increasingly convinced I’ve already read it 🫠😂 100
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Incredible starting anecdote on this interview with Irvine Welsh. 130
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A massive factor here is that downsizers could end up paying much more rent for a much smaller home, and realistically who is going to chose that 141
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I've got two answers that I know are likely to wind up different people, 1: 131
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026What a decision to have to make, face homelessness or accept a flat you know is a huge risk to your child’s life. 140
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Mostly spelling bee is annoying because it misses out words but sometimes it is annoying because it includes them too 100
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Just Louis XV dressed up as a topiary yew tree with nine other guys so he can go to a ball incognito as part of an elaborate seduction 030
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Interesting choice of reading material in my dentist’s waiting room today 110
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026One for those wondering if council housing delivers a different product: this interesting table from North Lanarkshire council shows 1.2% of homes built by housing associations were wheelchair accessible in most recent year's data, compared to 11.5% of council builds 020
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026When the footnote on the first page reveals you have bought the wrong edition 120
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Unexpected Spike cameo here in the NewsGuard story about AI propaganda posts traced to Russia that make it seem like they're a grassroots movement in favour of splitting Germany back up into East and West 130
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Basildon council's FOI form doesn't appear to allow you to copy and paste in the questions, FFS. A new low in the crowded category of council FOI inaccessibility 100
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“Not sufficiently productive in big Lego construction” as the first entry here 120
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Sorry to do this but mine is this reminder not to spend so long on my phone 170
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The back does look slightly better than the front from this pic, and you can see they’ve made a little more effort with making patterns in the brickwork 100
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It really must be true that humans hate change on some fundamental level for someone to be arguing that it’s gentrification for NYC to introduce bins because it will make it smell less diabolical 230
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I know people go on about how British homes are not built for the heat but I am in Vienna right now in an Airbnb flat with no air conditioning, just one fan and I feel if anything a bit too chilly 230
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This is a book that everyone should read, wow. (If anyone read In Memorium this was clearly a major source) 030
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Someone enjoyed themselves writing this standfirst 130
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026More on the summer holiday club desert for kids with SEND. And the government’s comment in response to the I is laughably bad inews.co.uk/news/areas-s... 221
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This is honestly so scary. And people tend to kept them in their home, maybe even in their bedroom. 020
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There’s so much of this book which touches on housing, not least how quickly it was possible to get public housing or a section 8 voucher in the 90s! Now it’s a lottery to go on a waitlist list. Also: asking people to write an essay on why they should get public housing: 000
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026For example, councils only accepting the need to house a pregnant woman after she's got her mat B1 form, or saying no to people who are homeless with kids. Like, they don't need Housing First necessarily with intensive support workers, they need a home 271
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The NYT’s take on this notes the decision of Burnham to start the day in a homeless shelter. Healey in Treasury. 000
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Whoever did the labelling on this map was having a day 020
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This book is gob smacking. Hard at times to believe it is non fiction. 100
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Charts like this are all over school - I do think it’s good they’re doing something on emotions - recognising them, regulating them. When i first saw this I did wonder if it really make sense but then have just been kind of going with it. 000
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026You can’t say the Dulwich diverter doesn’t know how to write a headline for its own specific readership 020
