Alison Wallace
@alisonwyork.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor, School of Business Society, University of York Housing, shared ownership, homeownership, private renting, algorithmic technologies and housing, social policy
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alisonwyork.bsky.social
New paper from @nuffieldfoundation.org funded CODE ENCOUNTERS project. Explores digital tenant referencing in private rented housing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
alisonwyork.bsky.social
Speak to Jenny Preece University of Sheffield @housingevidence.bsky.social
alisonwyork.bsky.social
danimmergluck.bsky.social
If there's one piece of research that came out in the last year that I think all housers should read, it is probably this brief.

*Affordable AND available* and the need for more income-restricted *deeply* affordable housing for those most vulnerable to housing instability, eviction, & homelessness.
urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Building more #homes does not guarantee affordability or access for people with low incomes. This Urban Wire post breaks down why affordable #housing matters—and how smart #policy solutions can help. https://urbn.is/4nFYf9r
alisonwyork.bsky.social
Thread!
gidim.bsky.social
We can't staircase out of shared ownership, can't add partners as property owners, can't relocate for career opportunities.

Family planning remains on indefinite hold - six years of major life decisions delayed because we can't access our own equity.
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gidim.bsky.social
You would think we'd be on track to freedom, given @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social, the Ministry of Housing himself, is our local MP.

Yet, six years later, we're still unsafe, hostages in our own home, and paying escalating costs while the "professionals" can't even measure a building correctly.
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gidim.bsky.social
Most people think the cladding crisis is over. It's not.

6 years after Grenfell, we're still trapped in flammable buildings, paying the price while freeholders profit.

This is what it actually costs to live in the "post-Grenfell" world: 🧵
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housingevidence.bsky.social
Our new paper uses regulatory theory and systems thinking to explore fresh, practical interventions that could transform the culture of compliance and improve tenants’ housing experiences in the English Private Rented Sector.

📄 Read it here: housingevidence.ac.uk/publications...
The Policy and Politics of Improving Standards in the English Private Rented Sector - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence
housingevidence.ac.uk
alisonwyork.bsky.social
If only the Labour Government could speak so stridently instead of all this ‘legitimate concerns’ nonsense.
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
Kit Malthouse to Lammy "can he not see his inaction & cowardice is making this country irrelevant? Can he also not see the personal risk to him, given our intl obligations, that he may end up at the Hague because of his inaction?"

Lammy tells Malthouse his language is unbecoming
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jdportes.bsky.social
It is very hard to see how the UK government can sign this statement, which makes it absolutely clear that it recognises that Israel is committing - as a matter of state policy - deliberate and systematic war crimes, without at a minimum cutting all military cooperation with Israel.
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marcdavenant.bsky.social
Reporters in Gaza from AFP are now unable to work due to them literally being starved to death by the Israeli government, but apparently these people opposing the genocide are the real terrorists 👇
marcdavenant.bsky.social
Peaceful protesters yesterday, writing the words on their placards which will convert them from ordinary citizens to terrorists in the eyes of the government and the law. Words which put them in the same legal group as Osama bin Laden. The rank absurdity of Cooper’s decision captured in one photo.
Protesters writing on blank placards during a protest
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profaliceroberts.bsky.social
“The ultimate democratization of education may reside not in its universal availability but in its deinstitutionalization. If this comes to pass, we may find that the fabric of our lives is Canvas.” Uh oh. But look - at least Instructure is being open about its imperial ambitions!
louiseseamster.bsky.social
Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students.

Oh.
(This article is nominally not a press release?)
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
As more becomes known about individuals more and more data about learner journeys and the alignment of courses to skills and skills to careers, Instructure will become increasingly capable of providing optimal pathways for students. Moreover, by combining learning management system, student work repository, transcripts, and credentialling services through the integration of products such as Portfolium, Parchment, Scribbles, and Concentric Sky, Instructure will be able to provide students and prospective employers with deep longitudinal insight into capabilities and qualifications. Rather than just being able to provide information about course outcomes, as with the traditional transcript, Insturcture could make available the entire student data set leading to that outcome. This would make it possible to distinguish between the student earning a “B” in a course who started rough but was a solid “A” for the last month of the course, and the “B” student who started strong but grew progressively weaker as the course progressed. One struggles to diferentiate between such students when reviewing traditional academic records, but it will become clear as more data is available. As the data set grows, developing AI-enhanced interfaces into the data will become increasingly important to help viewers find precisely what they are looking for. One can easily imagine a world where the degrees become less valuable than the incremental steps recorded en route to the degree. This would move the ultimate stamp of approval on the finished product (students) from the supplier’s (university) quality control staff (faculty, registrar) to that of the buyer (potential employer), who could use the AI to make find exactly what they are looking for independent of the grades assigned. As this happens, students may find themselves with many more choices on how to meet a prospective employer’s requirements than simply going to a name-brand university and majoring in a pre-approved subject. The ultimate democratization of education may reside not in its universal availability but in its deinstitutionalization. If this comes to pass, we may find that the fabric of our lives is Canvas.
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
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robertsaunders.bsky.social
The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...)

Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.

Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...
Headline from the Daily Mail, 11 April 1927: "Stop the Flapper-Vote Folly!"
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professor-dave.bsky.social
When the 12yo was in mainstream primary school, a new, unsympathetic non-inclusive headteacher who arrived in Year 6, repeatedly tried to change his educational provision. The fact that the EHCP was a legal document that agreed what support he should receive was vital in protecting him. #r4today
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alisonwyork.bsky.social
Surveillance Capitalism Kyoto style. A Security Robot.
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dreppie.bsky.social
The Centre for Lifelong Learning truly put into action ‘university of the public good’. My conversations with students when I taught there shaped the way I think about higher education and research. A huge loss for the university and the city.
joesaunders1.bsky.social
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
alisonwyork.bsky.social
Indeed. There’s a whole literature on the inequality of housing wealth. In regard unequal access to homeownership and assets now, and implications for retirement and sky rocketing pensioner housing benefit bill as people can’t afford to buy now.