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The Sewell Report: an example of institutional racism
Shelter’s Anti-Racism Steering Group’s response to The Sewell Report The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report, AKA The Sewell Report, undermines the extent of institutional and structural racism…

The threat to raise the small sites threshold must be permanently removed
In a win for the campaign for more social housing, the government has backed away from making more new developments exempt from providing affordable and social housing…
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NewBuy: what’s the alternative?
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