Jess McCabe

Back in 2020, many social landlords in the UK made anti-racist pledges in response to Black Lives Matter. I've gone back to find out what, five years later, has changed: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/blac...

Genuine 2000s feminist archival item here: sheets of stickers for labelling things as sexist as you gad about town.

I'm on the third song, "you said it would be plastered" which to clarify is about a wall. This has been rhymed with "bastard".

Look, look. AI is bad. But someone has just sent me a "35-minute, seven-song musical" they've "composed" in response to a news story we ran.

The first new builds are approaching the final "gateway 3" stage of the building regulator's process. Here's a heartening quote from @peteapps.bsky.social's story: “I think there’s an assumption that the sector knows what this should look like, and I think that’s the wrong assumption”

Yet another one of these stories. I often see people working in housing defend this model on the basis that it works well when the person is alive (as in this case below), but that seems like a huge misstep to me apple.news/Aw6vMw_GCSyy...

Part two of this in depth investigation into disrepair legal claims, this time looking at claims farmers. On some occasions they have even been impersonating the Housing Ombudsman >> Fantastic work on this by my amazing colleagues www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/hous...

Three of my colleague have been investigating this story over 18 months: first, a look at questions surrounding expert witnesses in housing disrepair legal cases www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/hous...

There’s only one way of on interpreting it when an MP thinks it’s okay to say of any minority “I don’t want them on a hospital ward in case my mother *saw* them”

We're running a good piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social today on wildfire risk, and the guidance (such as it is) for how to protect homes. www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/how-...

Nearly 10 years ago a gas explosion blew a hole out of New Ferry high street in Merseyside. At last, the rebuild and regeneration of the area is underway. @jennymessenger.bsky.social has done an ace deep dive on this, including interactive map of the damage done by the explosion and rebuild >>

Well it's been quite a dramatic day - we had someone break in through our garden and ask for help escaping the police. My partner handled it so calmly - gave him a dr pepper and a hug and persuaded him to leave the house. Our dog wagged his tail at the intruder, but was terrified of the police dog.

This is... What.

Interesting to see Simon Dudley - fired Reform housing spokesperson - has popped up with a new job on the advisory board of an AI company. Obviously we all need to work, but also interesting to see some other familiar names on the panel, including former housing sec Simon Clarke

This is absolutely bananas if true

Imagine being wealthy enough to sign your kid up for Dulwich College, and still feeling it’s okay to ask the school to cut bursaries because poor you it’s like £32k a year not £28k a year anymore, gross. And the college is entertaining it 🫠

One thing emerging after the government's social and affordable homes programme grant announcement, is much more information on the untapped potential within the social housing sector to build many more homes than the current grant can fund: www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/additio...

Peaky Blinders x housing development crossover story >> www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/homes-e...

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Easily my favorite detail:

Do housing associations have a brand problem? Mark Henderson argues they do in his exit interview from the top job at Home Group, done by our editor who is weirdly not on Bluesky www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/mark...

More upset over social housing grant - as my colleague @grainnecuffe.bsky.social reports, some London applicants only got 40% of what they asked for and some may not accept the offer from the GLA. The final list is now due in November www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/signifi...

I didn’t anticipate I’d be on the side of the “myndful” mushroom farmer living in a geodesic dome apple.news/ACk84KQYrSUy...

Niche #journorequest - Have you bought a new build flat or house (outright, not shared ownership) from a housing association? If so, and you would be up for chatting about it, please DM me

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?

‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb

You can support net zero, LGBTQ+ rights and a Palestinian state. But if you attend a synagogue or partake in almost any aspect of communal Jewish life, the Green Party now considers you a racist.

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hmm yeah sure I’m sure that will reassure people 👀

Yes. I keep reading pained and earnest explanations of how this targets and marginalises Jews across the board, written by people who somehow don't realise this is literally the point.

This week we launched a report written by five of our Magpie Mums and early years specialist Megan Pacey. The report uncovers the needs of children with SEND who live in families subject to the hostile immigration environment. Read our report here. themagpieproject.org/report-help-...

Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy of the Movement for Progressive Judaism have released this statement, arguing that by adopting this motion, "the Green Party has made antisemitism party policy and become a racist party" progressivejudaism.org.uk/statement-co...

The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.

Do these posters react like this when someone says something a bit ridiculous to them at the bus stop too

Late accounts in 3 of the last 5 financial years from one of London's biggest housing associations. The CEO also departed the organisation this week. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/sp-warn...

A reminder that if you're citing David Miller as some sort of crutch in defence of your position, you are objectively a deeply, deeply awful person or group.