Tag archives for Housing Crisis
Housing Crisis Solved
As official figures show more than 105,000 people in Britain are living in temporary accommodation, KENT BARKER looks to history to find a solution. As a small boy growing up…
EVERSFIELD NOT RISING
Housing hopes set back as building company fails HUGH SULLIVAN Construction work has halted at Eversfield Rise, the estate of 140 affordable homes being built on the former playing fields…
OPINION: Unintended Consequences
KENT BARKER wonders if objecting to small-scale housing developments might prove counterproductive. By almost any criteria, housing in Hastings is in crisis. It’s not just that nearly a thousand people…
We’ve got the space, so let’s use it
KEN DAVIS from Transition Town Hastings sets out the group’s innovative approach to solving the housing crisis in ; We need more homes, but homes of the right quality in…
Readers’ Comments
A story that didn’t go away this year and a definite ‘to be continued…’, the issue of housing in Hastings needs tackling with urgency. Shame individual unscrupulous landlords, petition for…
Death of the Council House
In the last issue of HIP, we called for further contributions to the debate about housing in Hastings and particularly the rental sector. Here HIP’s Kent Barker offers a historical…
A Housing Crisis Debate
Reader's Letter: A Landlord's View Local resident/landlord Jamie writes to ’ve been reading through your recent commentary of the Hastings housing crisis with a mixture of sadness at some of…
OPINION: Call it what it is – Class War
Robin Holtom gives a personal view of our current housing crisis The housing crisis that Louise Hester exposed so vividly in HIP 210 is no accident. And nothing this government…
Harsh Winter For those Vulnerably Housed?
The Bexhill and Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) warns that local people could be forced to disconnect from the national grid due to the high cost of prepay energy meters…
Wherever I Lay My Hat: The Hastings Housing Crisis
By Louise Hester Hastings is a buzzing, creative hub, filled to the brim with incredible minds and potential. By very virtue of this, and the fact it is a coastal…
Landlords – Is the term parasitic appropriate?
By Mary Thomas Hastings Rental Health Group (HRH) is a local group of renters, compassionate homeowners, and ethical landlords looking for solutions to the mad housing crisis we find ourselves…
XR demos target Council budget
Cllr Evans answers back The Hastings and St Leonards branch of Extinction Rebellion (XRHSL) has been out in force on the streets of Hastings to press anew its demand for…