Peter Apps
@PeteApps · London · joined 10 Jun 2013
Journalist, Inside Housing and elsewhere. Author of Show Me The Bodies https://t.co/3MjBC9cplw and Homesick https://t.co/QgTgaV45nu
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Residents on a south London estate face eviction and rent hikes, as a small property firm who purchased the homes from a housing associations looks to get a return
Dig into the story and a cautionary tale about who housing policy now serves emerges:
https://t.co/TKxWt58yam
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Interview with BSR chair Andy Roe on my Substack.
He sets out his vision for moving to policing professionals rather than buildings - including managing agents and site supervisors:
https://t.co/uD2tgHUsyM
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Very sad to see @NewhamBookshop's future being put in jeopardy by a Newham Council rent hike. This is exactly the sort of place the community needs more of, not less https://t.co/d80Rpovqim
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@PeteApps Just about every 'journalist' in property press seeks to become PR person for the money. You are an outstanding exception. And well done for exposing them this bullshit.
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@PeteApps Wow. Judging by the volume of articles that did get published along those lines, perhaps they succeeded in getting another journalist(s) to play their game…
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A lobbying firm wanted to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. We filmed them undercover, admitting to secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients:
https://t.co/ElhJ102u0C
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@PeteApps 20/20/24 Guardian: Britain’s wealth gap growing. Malign effects seep into all aspects of life. Housing market inequality +London/SE compounding values constantly widen a centuries old gap. Rentier value-extracting capitalism drives out real productivity.
https://t.co/cv
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(Pinning this thread for obvious reasons, but for those of you who want my big Grenfell inquiry round up thread for reference, you can find it here: https://t.co/J3xFIYbR2Z)
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... the very difficult question of how we make this mad, beautiful and infruriating city work for human beings again as well as those who simply want to extract wealth from it
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@OneworldNews Was also a real privelege to speak to everyone I've spoken to for it, especially those who were willing to sit down for a few hours/days and share their stories of London life over 40 years. I've learned a lot about my city from writing it. Hopefully it can help fig
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Sneak peak of the contents page: https://t.co/UfS3GV1kTw
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I was born into a city where housing was affordable. But I've grown up into one where it was not. What has gone wrong in London over the last 35 years? And where is it going in the future?
My new book, Homesick, tells that story. Out Sept 25 https://t.co/LpBQiEYP3f https://t
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The fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire is a week today.
The shocking revelations from the inquiry have been heard by too few. So here is a thread which I will update over the next few days with some of the things you may have missed:
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Against accounts of the same size
2 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views4 038this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %15.69%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.36%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 4 038 | 924 | 4.37× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 15.69% | 3.62% | 4.33× |
| Engagement rate | 2.36% | 1.52% | 1.55× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
40K29 May
711
643
1.2K
1.7K
169
40.5K22 Jul
432
730
65823 Jul
2.3K5 Aug
2.1K18 Aug
6K3 Sep
Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.07%29 May
1.55%
1.09%
1.00%
0.53%
2.96%
1.35%22 Jul
3.70%
3.15%
3.80%23 Jul
3.05%5 Aug
1.91%18 Aug
2.81%3 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes57.5%846 in total
Reposts28.0%412 in total
Replies4.8%70 in total
Quotes2.3%34 in total
Bookmarks7.4%109 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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