Dawn Foster

If you're in a meeting and a man talks loudly over you, rather than copying that behaviour and normalising it, what you…

— Dawn Foster

If the Government put people before markets, it would build more council housing - a form of public investment in housing that…

— Dawn Foster

Everyone should have a right to a home.

— Dawn Foster

For children with special educational needs to receive the help they need to thrive in education, councils need targeted funding that properly…

— Dawn Foster

It should be obvious that banning begging or criminalising rough sleeping will do little to combat homelessness.

— Dawn Foster

The bedroom tax turfed people, many of them disabled, out of their homes, while the government disseminated myths about people living it…

— Dawn Foster

The long-term effects of privatising both rail and housing, aside from ensuring we live in a country of crumbling infrastructure (in contrast…

— Dawn Foster

A smart society recognises the benefits of treating problems before they escalate, either through helping people quit smoking or moving them out…

— Dawn Foster

Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.

— Dawn Foster

Women, when they do break into power or succeed, can expect to have their lives scrutinised for clues to how they managed…

— Dawn Foster

Housing, not buying, should be a right - and available and affordable for all. Right to buy is devastating our housing system,…

— Dawn Foster

Renters didn't used to be cursed: social housing offered millions of people a steady, safe and secure home for an affordable price.

— Dawn Foster

Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate…

— Dawn Foster

I'm learning to believe that my epilepsy doesn't disbar me from being considered attractive, so if I think I look palatable in…

— Dawn Foster

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low…

— Dawn Foster

None of us are as insulated from poverty as we think.

— Dawn Foster

The majority of us don't do what's best for us all the time because life is complicated and busy - and creating…

— Dawn Foster

Good policymaking is evidence-based, and preventing crime and antisocial behaviour involves fixing the society we all live in, identifying risk factors and…

— Dawn Foster

There is no golden age of public spending for the working class under any form of Conservative future, only the endless pursuit…

— Dawn Foster

Housing is predominantly presented as a generational issue: millennials aren't able to get on the property ladder in the same way their…

— Dawn Foster

If we have a right to healthcare, we should also have a right to the most fundamental of human needs: shelter.

— Dawn Foster

If shelter is a human right, why not create a national housing service to provide homes for everyone who doesn't have one?

— Dawn Foster

Cooking requires time, effort and fuel: increasing numbers of people I've visited can't even afford to turn on the kettle for a…

— Dawn Foster

Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution.

— Dawn Foster

Fewer people than you might think seem to have truly enjoyed their formative education and, for those who did not, one theme…

— Dawn Foster