The wisdom of residents’ associations
There is a term used in the council for people like this: solutionisers.
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We have to end the social housing stigma
Social landlords should be seen as helping build lives, not as simply a safety net.
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Can the housing and productivity crises be solved at the same time?
The link between poor-quality homes and worklessness might be stronger than the government has bargained for.
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Bringing the house down?
Why Labour finds it so difficult to get housebuilding off the ground.
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Angela Rayner, Grand Designs and the British housing nightmare
Britain’s best housing programme shows the knot of planning laws the Housing Secretary must unravel.
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Matthew Pennycook: “The housing crisis is acute and entrenched”
At a New Statesman event, the housing minister addressed the challenges ahead for the Labour government’s housebuilding agenda.
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Tenants of the world, unite!
What’s driving the rise of renters’ unions?
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Why London’s fractured housing market is going to take time to heal
London Deputy Mayor Tom Copley on his and Sadiq Khan’s plans for the capital.
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Kwajo Tweneboa: “Let’s build housing on a scale not seen since the Second World War”
The housing campaigner on living standards, Michael Gove and Labour’s 1.5 million homes target.
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Vikki Slade: “We agree that new homes are needed, but they must be the right homes”
The Liberal Democrat housing spokesperson on the party’s plans for opposition.
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The Trapped: inside Britain’s social housing scandal
This eight-part series reveals the council homes unfit for human habitation – in horrifying detail.
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What Labour gets wrong about Right to Buy
The policy is a drain on council resources and a gift to the private rental market.
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Why Rachel Reeves should crash the housing market
It might take ten years and a lot of shouting, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.
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The property rental market is a hellscape
In a landlord’s market, with intense competition from fellow renters, you’re damned whatever you do.
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The housing crisis will not go away
People’s inability to afford homes did for the Conservatives and it could do the same for Labour.
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What happened to the housing crash?
The real value of homes in the UK has dropped significantly and a long-term decay in value appears to be…
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The housing crisis is inescapable
It’s one of the UK’s biggest policy problems, with knock-on effects on everything from productivity to pensions and the demographic…
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It’s the housing market, stupid
The cost-of-living crisis hinges on one problem, and Jeremy Hunt’s 99 per cent mortgages can’t disguise that fact.
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Buyers who take up the offer may well find themselves stuck with higher repayments – and unable to switch to…
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The housing crisis outrage machine
The UK press has only one solution for the broken rental market: clickbait.
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