Meaning, I wanted to see regular people down at City Hall every day, talking to council members, their staff and department officials about the important issues, such as the need for good jobs, affordable housing, parks, accountable development and environmental decisions that responsibly balanced corporate profits with community health.
At a minimum, the benefit tribunal system – in reality, the hurdle disabled people must jump to be able to eat, buy a wheelchair, or get help to leave the house – must be accountable and accessible.
But rather than leave millions at the mercy of the mini autocrats of the rented sector, a new wave of council housing would offer accountable landlords, without the absurdity of market rates.
The cynical contempt that Mipim has for those in housing need is demonstrated by an earlier title (now changed) of one of its workshops: Investing in Affordable Housing – Is It Worth It? Nothing more eloquently expresses why we should say no to Mipim and yes to a publicly accountable housing policy that puts people before profits.
Making housing developments 'environmentally sustainable' requires housing developers to be accountable for their 'green' credentials.
"Landlords who violate the law will be held accountable," the housing commissioner, Shaun Donovan, said in announcing the jail sentence.
Tillis, as speaker of the state's house of representatives, is held accountable for a stream of radical legislation since 2010 that has included an attempt, later blocked by the courts, to impose ultrasounds on women seeking abortions.
Meanwhile, shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman made a Commons point of order asking for clarification over whether Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt was "accountable to this House".
But the leader of the House of Lords, Lord Strathclyde, told peers that Lord Green - chairman of HSBC from 2006 to 2010 - was "accountable to this House only for his work as a minister" and not his previous career as a banker.
Good said the dismissal of the charges "felt really good," but that she was still concerned that "the officer who ordered me inside my house has not been held accountable for anything".
Ms. Swonk said that notwithstanding rampant revisions of government data, the public sector would be a more accountable and reliable housing statistician than an industry group.
