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John Healey MP is former local government minister

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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