the cost of cleaning the property if you have left it in a condition which means the landlord cannot re-let it without cleaning it

The expropriation of empty properties, along with a mass council house building programme, on the basis of quality, environmentally sustainable and genuinely affordable housing, are key demands of socialists today. These already vulnerable families are ... being forced to live miles away from their communities, their families and friends and where they work or where their children go to school. The London boroughs that make that decision and the government who created the permitted development rules could stop this now,” he says. It may be easier for you to initially come to the UK alone, and stay in temporary, single housing while you look for a family home. Once you have found longer-term housing for yourself and your family, your family can travel to the UK.This is not a picture of a thriving city, and the problem is price. Price is always about the balance of supply and demand, so short of driving people away we are left needing to increase supply. The Ombusdman said: "The landlord intends to set up training programmes around diagnostic and problem-solving skills." The methodology used to achieve these objectives and select 55 projects (listed in Table 2) is set out below.

For Engels, housing is one of the “secondary evils that result from the present capitalist mode of production.” Under the profit system, Engels explains, housing is treated as a commodity rather than a right. Fundamental change is needed in social relations to solve the housing crisis, transforming individual ownership into collective ownership. The very nature of social housing means that customer service can be a more complex affair than other sectors. In a market which spans local authority homes and independent housing associations what is the benchmark for customer experience in the industry?

Best practice from around the sector

The landlord aims to have a dedicated damp and mould strategy in place by April 2023, in line with the recommendation of the Ombudsman’s Spotlight report, and is deploying technology to monitor humidity in their homes. It is highly unlikely that this endemic behaviour of ‘othering’ is isolated to a single landlord and the social housing sector should consider whether they also need to turn over the stone and do a deep dive into their culture and whether they are living their social purpose.