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John Healey

John Healey

John Healey MP is former local government minister

Articles by John Healey

It's time to review housing

By John Healey | 04 December 2013

A major rescue and recovery programme is needed for social housing – and local government needs t...

Saving private renters

By John Healey | 31 October 2013

Political parties are finally waking up to the pressures that private renters face.

How to speed economic development

By John Healey | 26 September 2013

Localism is in retreat, says John Healey, as he looks at how decentralisation holds the key to fu...

Salvaging education's missed opportunity

By John Healey | 13 August 2013

Educated, employable youth is the aim. But, John Healey argues, previous and current governments ...

Stop the agents letting us down

By John Healey | 26 June 2013

There are too many despairing tenants who are let down by low standards and ripped off by high fe...

School's out

By John Healey | 29 May 2013

John Healey asks if the 'free-for-all' surrounding Michael Gove's academies and free schools risk...

A home banker

By John Healey | 24 April 2013

John Healey looks at Margaret Thatcher's housing legacy, and says we all need to get involved to ...

The borrowers

By John Healey | 12 March 2013

John Healey believes local government can prove that borrowing to invest and build can be good th...

Welfare dog hasn't barked... yet!

By John Healey | 13 February 2013

Housing benefit claimants are about to face huge changes. And John Healey has grave misgivings.

What a difference a year makes

By John Healey | 12 December 2012

Last week's Autumn Statement has confirmed that Britain has gone backwards, says John Healey.