May’s new housing adviser is ex-policy geek at Shelter!
Theresa May promised the country that she would fix our broken housing market and renew the British dream.
To help with this May has appointed Toby Lloyd, formerly head of policy and housing development at the anti-landlord ‘charity’ Shelter and who also lists HPC (House Price Crash) as one of his favourite websites!
Toby is the co-author of a recent book considering the inequalities of the housing market called, Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing. Discussing government encouragement of home ownership in the post war housing market the book states: “In an era of majoritarian democracy, governments have seen fit to slant public policy in favour of these new, domestic landowners, deepening the divide between those that do and do not own landed property.”
This would indicate a definite hostility to the idea of ownership of land and property beyond the need for personal shelter.
We will have to wait and see how much credence May gives to the advice offered by Toby, but it is likely to add to the weight of anti-landlord policies and cheap populist politics that are being served up currently.
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Member Since December 2015 - Comments: 828
1:17 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by KATHY MILLER at 27/04/2018 – 11:17
because may is blue labor!
Member Since January 2015 - Comments: 91
1:44 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
Shelter has no housing and does not contribute to the supply of housing in this country. It is only concerned with making it as difficult as possible for the flexible responsive Private Rented Sector to make the contribution that is needed if this country is to start to get on top of the “housing crisis”. Let us not forget that the political views of Shelter are much in line with those of Corbyn, so it has a political interest in causing a Conservative government to bring in policies which will make the national housing situation worse rather than better.
Write to your MP — especially if he/she is a Conservative — and point this out.
Member Since February 2016 - Comments: 977 - Articles: 1
1:48 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Michael Bond at 27/04/2018 – 13:44
Indeed, I am in the conservative area and will write to my MP over the weekend. Saying that , she has never been particularly sympathetic to my correspondence on S24, although she passed it higher (and the usual Gauke’s blah blah blah back to me)
Member Since February 2016 - Comments: 977 - Articles: 1
3:56 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
Just checked Shelter FB website, did not see anything about it there…
Member Since April 2014 - Comments: 20
5:20 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
This is just political window dressing and this ex Shelter leftie will immediately be ignored.
Member Since November 2016 - Comments: 99
5:52 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
It just shows May has poor judgement.
She has no vision and just waits to see which way the wind is blowing before jumping on the bandwagon.
Member Since September 2014 - Comments: 277
6:13 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
Yet another reason to write direct to a government minister, this time the P.M. herself and state our case as no one else will !!!
Member Since January 2015 - Comments: 91
6:24 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
As a matter of tactics it is almost always better to write to your MP rather than direct to a minister. If you write directly to the minister you will get a reply from some incompetentcivilservant (yes it really is all one word) and the minister will never even see your letter; if you write to your MP he/she will pass it to the minister for a response which the minister is expected to sign personally, so being made aware of the point you have raised.
Member Since September 2015 - Comments: 1013
7:31 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Arnie Newington at 27/04/2018 – 17:52
Just pandering to the Generation Rent lobby – I hope
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8:23 PM, 27th April 2018, About 8 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Dr Rosalind Beck at 27/04/2018 – 09:37
Surely a letter to TM’s office pointing out the advisors website preferences together with content examples … ?