The place for progressive housing debate
Red Brick is a progressive political blog with a particular focus on housing policy edited by Alex Toal since March 2024.
As a forum it is open to anyone interested in the progressive debate about housing, communities, and wider politics.
We are linked to the Labour Housing Group but the views expressed here are those of individual authors and/or the editors and are not necessarily the view of LHG or London LHG.
Through debate and the sharing of ideas in this open forum, we will help to develop sound Labour housing policies, support Labour councils to do their best to address housing needs, and support LHG to make sure housing is seen a priority for Labour.
It was founded in 2010 by Tony Clements and Steve Hilditch and been previously edited by our pseudonymous friend Monimbo.
- The Government has a plan to build 1.5m homes – but what is the plan to heat them?
Pablo John writes on the need for the Government’s housing ambition to be extended to decarbonising home heating. - Kemi Badenoch’s shift right bodes ill for housing
Since the election, Badenoch has already shifted the Conservatives right on renters’ rights, housing delivery and migration, returning to the party to its days of more divisive rhetoric. - Creating neighbourhoods, not just chasing targets, must be our planning ambition
In a week with much news for planning reform, Josh Nicholson, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Justice., makes the case for why neighbourhood creation must be a feature of planning - A plan to boost construction industry capacity to deliver 1.5 million homes
City building specialist Simon Barrow details how government can make the most of the existing skills in the housing sector to deliver its construction ambitions