CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England and is for news and comment in that context. This article would be improved by an appropriate photo or image
- New report reveals "growing, invisible homelessness crisis in our countryside, English Rural (Mar 17, 2023)
- Builders are making thumping profits by over-charging for new homes – new findings, The Conversation (Mar 07, 2023)
- Something radical is happening in Hastings. It might just tell us how to solve Britain’s empty homes problem, bigissue.com (Mar 03, 2023)
- Regenerative Thinking: The problem with new housing, Wicked Leeks (Mar 02, 2023)
February 2023[edit | edit source]
- Britain is addicted to the wrecking ball. It’s trashing our heritage and the planet, Phineas Harper, The Guardian (Feb 10, 2023)
November 2022[edit | edit source]
- The Tories are tearing themselves apart over housing – but this is another crisis of their own making, John Harris, The Guardian (Nov 27, 2022)
- About 50 MPs sign amendment to scrap mandatory local housing targets for councils, The Guardian (Nov 22, 2022)
- England’s housing strategy carries a high carbon cost – unless politicians are willing to change plans, The Conversation (Nov 10, 2022) — "our research demonstrates that, based on current trends, England’s housing strategy could consume our entire carbon budget by 2050."
- If more houses had water butts, it could help with drought, flooding and water pollution, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
- Cohousing is empowering people to fight back against a global housing crisis, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
October 2022[edit | edit source]
- What if the power and resources to build our neighbourhoods were in community hands?, medium.com/reimagining-economic-possibilities (Oct 27, 2022)
May 2022[edit | edit source]
- Neighbourhood green space is in rapid decline, deepening both the climate and mental health crises, The Conversation (May 18, 2022)
April 2022[edit | edit source]
- Hundreds march in Dorchester in protest at housing plans, BBC News (Apr 03, 2022) — protest at plans to build 4,000 houses on open land and "desecrate" the Thomas Hardy countryside
March 2022[edit | edit source]
- Why the government needs to make sure net zero is in local plans, CPRE (Mar 25, 2022)
February 2022[edit | edit source]
- Laying the myths to rest: Canterbury crisis shows how desperate government policy and housebuilder attitudes are making homes unaffordable… and destroying our countryside, CPRE Kent (Feb 15, 2022)
- New greenfield housing still designed around cars, report finds, BBC News (Feb 07, 2022)
- Camden calls for sites that could deliver Community led housing, communityledhousing.london (Feb 02, 2022)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Housing UK news (latest), 2021, 2020, 2015-2019
- Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England
- Saving water in South East England
- Urban sustainability news
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