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Alison Wallace

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Emeritus Professor, School of Business Society, University of York Housing, shared ownership, homeownership, private renting, algorithmic technologies and housing, social policy

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Housing Studies Charitable Trust Seeking New Trustees — Thornby Associates The Housing Studies Charitable Trust (HSCT) is looking for three new members to join theBoard of Trustees, a vital part of their governance.

The Housing Studies Charitable Trust is seeking new Trustees to distribute proceeds from the journal to support housing education and scholarship. Please see advert and share widely. The role isn’t onerous and support important orgs and postdocs/ECR. www.thornbyassociates.co.uk/latest-news/...

15.12.2025 14:38 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Photo of first page of article in Int Journal of Housing Policy

Photo of first page of article in Int Journal of Housing Policy

New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

07.01.2026 13:28 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A wild thread...

20.12.2025 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@davidjmadden.bsky.social @housingevidence.bsky.social @housingeurope.bsky.social @kengibb.bsky.social @craiggurney.bsky.social

15.12.2025 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@tomjsimcock.bsky.social

15.12.2025 14:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@rogerjburrows.bsky.social @bethwcobbe.bsky.social @pennybernstock.bsky.social @edferrari.bsky.social

15.12.2025 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Housing Studies Charitable Trust Seeking New Trustees — Thornby Associates The Housing Studies Charitable Trust (HSCT) is looking for three new members to join theBoard of Trustees, a vital part of their governance.

The Housing Studies Charitable Trust is seeking new Trustees to distribute proceeds from the journal to support housing education and scholarship. Please see advert and share widely. The role isn’t onerous and support important orgs and postdocs/ECR. www.thornbyassociates.co.uk/latest-news/...

15.12.2025 14:38 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

We too published work on this, a year ago That might be of interest www.york.ac.uk/media/busine...

08.12.2025 23:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds Benefit claimants having applications denied for being deemed too risky by housing associations, says Crisis

Look forward to the report, anyone have a link?

@crisis-uk.bsky.social @housingevidence.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

08.12.2025 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Speak to Jenny Preece University of Sheffield @housingevidence.bsky.social

22.09.2025 16:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/dani...

18.09.2025 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thread!

14.08.2025 17:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

You would think we'd be on track to freedom, given @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social, the Ministry of Housing himself, is our local MP.

Yet, six years later, we're still unsafe, hostages in our own home, and paying escalating costs while the "professionals" can't even measure a building correctly.

14.08.2025 16:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Most people think the cladding crisis is over. It's not.

6 years after Grenfell, we're still trapped in flammable buildings, paying the price while freeholders profit.

This is what it actually costs to live in the "post-Grenfell" world: 🧵

14.08.2025 16:23 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence

Our new paper uses regulatory theory and systems thinking to explore fresh, practical interventions that could transform the culture of compliance and improve tenants’ housing experiences in the English Private Rented Sector.

📄 Read it here: housingevidence.ac.uk/publications...

13.08.2025 11:40 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Done! 🤞

08.08.2025 08:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If only the Labour Government could speak so stridently instead of all this ‘legitimate concerns’ nonsense.

28.07.2025 21:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kit Malthouse to Lammy "can he not see his inaction & cowardice is making this country irrelevant? Can he also not see the personal risk to him, given our intl obligations, that he may end up at the Hague because of his inaction?"

Lammy tells Malthouse his language is unbecoming

22.07.2025 03:42 👍 457 🔁 146 💬 46 📌 91

It is very hard to see how the UK government can sign this statement, which makes it absolutely clear that it recognises that Israel is committing - as a matter of state policy - deliberate and systematic war crimes, without at a minimum cutting all military cooperation with Israel.

21.07.2025 16:34 👍 589 🔁 164 💬 18 📌 15

Reporters in Gaza from AFP are now unable to work due to them literally being starved to death by the Israeli government, but apparently these people opposing the genocide are the real terrorists 👇

22.07.2025 06:50 👍 31 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0

“The ultimate democratization of education may reside not in its universal availability but in its deinstitutionalization. If this comes to pass, we may find that the fabric of our lives is Canvas.” Uh oh. But look - at least Instructure is being open about its imperial ambitions!

20.07.2025 09:06 👍 115 🔁 23 💬 6 📌 0
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

19.07.2025 19:04 👍 5375 🔁 2233 💬 100 📌 73
Headline from the Daily Mail, 11 April 1927: "Stop the Flapper-Vote Folly!"

Headline from the Daily Mail, 11 April 1927: "Stop the Flapper-Vote Folly!"

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...)

Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.

Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

19.07.2025 10:35 👍 1263 🔁 539 💬 56 📌 55
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Black people in England four times as likely to face homelessness, study finds Black people also less likely than white people to get social housing and can face ‘overt racism’ from private landlords

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

11.07.2025 04:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

When the 12yo was in mainstream primary school, a new, unsympathetic non-inclusive headteacher who arrived in Year 6, repeatedly tried to change his educational provision. The fact that the EHCP was a legal document that agreed what support he should receive was vital in protecting him. #r4today

07.07.2025 07:14 👍 54 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
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To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The closing of Abrdn’s Fair Finance Trust is grim news. I had funding from them into shared ownership and found them all staff great to work with. Big loss to difficult social policy research funding landscape. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

01.07.2025 09:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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third of renters could be 'forced out of their homes' despite landmark reforms Labour’s significant Renters' Rights Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament, will ban landlords from evicting renters for no reason from their homes - but fears remain

The government's tenancy reforms make it easier to fight rent hikes through a tribunal. But @rentersreformco.bsky.social finds the tribunal is awarding landlords an average rent increase of £240/month! Tenants will still be at risk of being priced out of their homes www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

30.06.2025 08:55 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Surveillance Capitalism Kyoto style. A Security Robot.

30.06.2025 08:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Are rents affordable in Amsterdam? Not if you are a newcomer | Amber Howard The city was once the pinnacle of inclusivity, with working- and middle-class people alike living in social housing – then the private landlords arrived, says social-policy researcher Amber Howard

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30.06.2025 08:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0