Housing

The government must limit the scheme to first-time buyers.
Help To Buy is in a mess - here's how Osborne can rescue it
By Hannah Fearn - 14 May 14:35

To avoid a "second home subsidy", the government must limit the scheme to first-time buyers.

Housing near Clapham in London
The private rental sector: misery, stress and poverty
By Alan White - 08 February 12:27

Renting is the new normal, but for many it means no security and a constant risk of exploitation.

A residential street in Newport, Wales
Introducing... Generation Rent
By Anita Sethi - 31 January 7:36

The first rung of the housing ladder is unreachable for too many people.

Vacancies signs in the window of a guest house in Margate, Kent.
Thousands of homeless families drift to the end of the track
By Alan White - 21 November 16:35

Local authorities are now empowered to place homeless people in private rented accommodation, meaning they can be forced out of our cities.

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Last year, 10,000 young people became homeless. Photograph: Getty Images.
Why we must defend housing benefit for the under-25s
By Leslie Morphy - 12 November 13:55

Removing the vital lifeline that the benefit provides will lead to a surge in hardship and homelessness.

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Housing minister Grant Shapps. Photograph: Getty Images.
"Beds in sheds" shouldn't distract us from the real housing crisis
By Graeme Cooke - 31 August 11:03

The coalition's cuts to capital spending are decimating the house building sector.

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Housing
Co-operative housing could be the answer to Britain's troubles
By Samir Jeraj - 31 July 11:50

In the face of cuts and a decline in home ownership, co-ops could help people into the market.

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Rain clouds about rooftops in Bath
Cameron's housing benefit proposals are part of an ongoing redefinition of adulthood
By Nelson Jones - 25 June 12:55

PM continuing is a trend of assuming people in their twenties are still basically teenagers.

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A block of flats in Bath
Housing benefit can be the route to social mobility
By Nichi Hodgson - 25 June 12:00

Without housing benefit mine and my family's life chances would have been obliterated.

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A woman walks past real estate boardings. Photograph: Getty Images.
Why the left should aspire to a "property owning democracy"
By Marc Stears - 19 June 17:44

There is a social argument for ownership as well as a conservative one.

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