But with little hope of government funding, how would he meet the needs of the families on the Council's waiting lists, many of them in overcrowded conditions?
His trio would inevitably want to come up with bright new ideas for funding: how dull to conclude the blindingly obvious – more cash from general taxation.
This is partly to do with funding: how do we know that the projects Labour has funded are actually reducing vulnerability to extreme ideas and radicalisation?
"Being in college and being surrounded by people doing really big-picture initiatives," he says, "I learned from people's mistakes about where to get funding, how to market the idea, the flow of the Web site.
And – at least on the evidence of this show – there's a new, canny breed of graduates who know how to get funding, how to get their work seen and how to create a space in which they can operate.
In general, a plan's riskiness is being linked to its level of funding — how many dollars it has on hand relative to how much its participants have been promised.
