Readers’ panel is a missed chance
I was very disappointed with the composition of Inside Housing’s general election Readers’ Panel (Inside Housing, 19 March, 2010) that will be scrutinising key political announcements and revealing whether they feel sufficiently persuaded by any one party’s housing policy.
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The panel is supposedly ‘drawn from across the sector’, yet there is only one woman representative and all are white and over 50.
The UK’s housing sector is one of the more progressive areas of British society and there are many female, young, disabled, LGBT and black and ethnic minority housing professionals that you could have called upon.
This election is set to be the most diverse in British history with all the parties learning lessons from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
The parties are likely to move beyond their core white audiences by using social media, as Mr Obama did, to entice voters from across all spectrums. I really think you have missed an opportunity to have a progressive Readers’ Panel.
Caris Henry, tenant engagement, policy and communications officer, Tuntum Housing Association