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All of our writers are volunteers, and range in experience from first-time writers to experienced experts in the housing space.

Any news articles (factual and descriptive pieces detailing current events in housing) should be between 500 and 750 words.

Any opinion pieces should be between 600 and 900 words.

 Any interview pieces should be between 600 and 1,000 words.

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Why managing agents must finally be regulated
Danny Beales MP wants action for millions of leaseholders at risk from unregulated managing agents.
England’s Leasehold Reforms Risk Harming Community Land Trusts
Tom Chance, CEO at the Community Land Trust Network, urges Ministers to take action to protect Community Land Trusts when reforming England’s feudal leasehold system
Boosting housing supply in Australia and Canada: much more than planning de-regulation
Hal Pawson (University of New South Wales) and Steve Pomeroy (McMaster University) discuss the range of housing policies at play in Australia and Canada, and lessons for the UK
Why the construction sector needs social housing
In her first post as Red Brick editor, Rose Grayston sets out how the UK’s stop-start housing model is holding back construction – and how large-scale social housebuilding can …
A new generation of new towns in England
Nick Raynsford, former Labour minister and member of the government’s New Towns Taskforce, sets out the challenges and opportunities of a new generation of New Towns at the launch …
Delivering 1.5m new homes: setting up new development corporations – a blueprint for success
City building specialist Simon Barrow sets up how new development corporations can be set up to support the Government's 1.5 million home mission
Standardising Section 106 agreements is overdue. Making it stick will be harder.
Mike Reader, Member of Parliament for Northampton South, sets out the path for fixing the Section 106 process through standardisation and national leadership
Labour’s Commonhold Bill is the start of the end of the leasehold nightmare
Red Brick editor Alex Toal sets out what is in Labour's new Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill and what else the Government is doing to end the many problems …