Yesterday marked the resumption of eviction hearings in England because the Government has refused calls from Labour and homelessness charities to extend the ban on evictions during the Coronavirus crisis. [...]
After a sum total of more than seven years leading Labour’s housing policy from the opposition and government benches, it is time to move on. This is what I have [...]
MP John Healey champions Rotherham and other Labour councils for tackling the housing crisis. This week Mr Healey, MP for Wentworth & Dearne and Labour’s shadow housing secretary published a [...]
MP John Healey says Labour will end the leasehold scandal, which has led to unexpected bills for Dearne home buyers. This week Mr Healey, MP for Wentworth & Dearne and [...]
In the week of the two-year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary, John Healey MP is urging the Government to set a new ultimatum for private [...]
Shadow Housing Secretary, John Healey MP, today announced that the next Labour Government will scrap ‘permitted development’ rules for new homes, ending a get-out clause which allows developers to dodge [...]
Labour will build a million more low-cost homes, end rough sleeping and cap private rents in line with average local incomes. Shadow Housing Secretary and Wentworth & Dearne MP John [...]
South Yorkshire MP John Healey is set to win a two-year fight to protect renters from unsafe homes. The Wentworth & Dearne MP and Shadow Housing Secretary is leading on [...]
Labour will lead a debate on government funding changes which are set to close supported housing schemes. Such schemes help thousands of vulnerable people including the homeless, elderly people, veterans [...]
Work has started on 10 new affordable homes in Goldthorpe, after a £1m investment from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. Two derelict properties will be demolished and replaced with two-bedroom homes, [...]
This is a tragedy that should never have happened and has shocked the whole country. Our first priority must be to ensure those who are affected by the fire are [...]
John has published a report showing how Labour councils across the country are demonstrating Labour priorities to meet housing need, support mixed communities and give working people the chance to fulfil [...]
£2.3bn a year – around £1 in every £10 spent on housing benefit – is going to private landlords renting out sub-standard homes. The figures, drawn from the official English [...]
A home of our own has been part of the British dream for decades. Now this hope in life is being dashed, as buying a house becomes totally out of [...]
Housing Minister, Gavin Barwell, has been accused of blocking a housebuilding initiative by Bradford Council as a ‘favour’ to a local Tory MP, who complained about the plan. In a [...]
Local leaders must prioritise housing to make devolution deals a success, according to John Healey. The former housing minister voiced his concerns that housing was ‘conspicuous by its absence’ in [...]
Whether Owen Smith or Jeremy Corbyn is elected in two weeks’ time, the new Labour leader must make turning around our Party’s lack of public appeal his first priority. Few [...]
While Westminster has been preoccupied with the political consequences of the historic Brexit vote, what really matters is the policy response, and in particular how government chooses to deal with [...]
John has called on the new government to protect supported housing from devastating housing benefit cuts. On Tuesday 19 July, John and his colleague Jess Phillips wrote to the newly [...]
John commissioned brand new figures from the independent House of Commons Library which reveal for the first time David Cameron’s housing legacy – showing that under the recently departed Prime [...]
Last Tuesday (July 18), John launched a new report in Parliament and called for a new ‘progressive devolution’ drive on housing and planning to help give more disadvantaged areas fresh [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning, commenting on new house-building data for the fourth quarter of 2015, said: “After five years of failure on [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning, responding to reports that the Government is considering softening their ‘pay to stay’ measures, said: “The Government‘s tenant [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, commenting on today’s government statement announcing that Ministers are delaying a cut to housing benefit which Labour has warned will [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning, commenting on new house-building data for the fourth quarter of 2015, said: “After five years of failure on [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning commenting on new rough sleeping statistics released today, said: “These figures are the starkest possible reminder of Conservative [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning has released new analysis showing the Chancellor’s housing announcements are already starting to unravel. · An ‘increase’ in housing [...]