With its impossible rents, London is trying to spit me out
In June I replied to 22 adverts on SpareRoom and made it through to five viewings. The competition is wild.
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It’s time for rules on short-term lets
Platforms like Airbnb enable everyday people to supplement their income – but the activity needs regulation.
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Lisa Nandy’s housing plan is radical and – most importantly – cheap
The shadow housing and levelling-up secretary is showing voters how Labour can change things without spending big.
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What is Labour’s housing policy?
It wants to be the party of home ownership.
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PMQs: Sunak’s housing policies are built on sand
By attacking the Conservatives on homeownership and house-building, Starmer is turning a traditional Tory strength into a weakness.
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The Policy Ask with Matt Downie: “Ending homelessness through a housing-first model is a transformative idea”
The CEO of Crisis on rogue landlords, the inhumanity of the “hostile environment” mantra and Finland’s housing-first policy.
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The housing crash will be different this time
Conditions suggest a long, slow death rather than a sharp shock.
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The deadly cost of nimbyism
How many children’s lives are their unearned capital gains worth?
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The bold policy that could help Labour solve the housing crisis
New housebuilding and planning policies need to boost local economies, not just landowners and developers.
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The great leaseholders’ revolt
From the Red Wall to Labour London, a growing anti-leasehold movement is pushing for radical change on housing.
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Michael Gove’s Renters Reform Bill is “unenforceable”
Local authorities don’t have the resources or skills to uphold regulation of the private rented sector.
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“It’s a gravy train”: one surveyor’s fight to fix Britain’s leasehold system
For two decades, leaseholders are said to have been overpaying by up to £500m a year
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What’s wrong with the English planning system?
Keir Starmer has said a Labour government would try to overhaul our internationally unusual set-up.
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Could new regulation kill off short-term holiday lets?
The government is currently consulting on whether to regulate holiday rentals commonly advertised on platforms like Airbnb.
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Andy Street: “Our devolution deal is the end of the begging bowl”
The Mayor of the West Midlands on how the “landmark” shift of powers from Whitehall to his authority will transform…
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Will anyone dare defy the Nimby Party?
As long as the main parties believe there are votes in opposing development, the UK won’t get the houses it…
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A generation locked out
Those who cannot afford to buy a property have been forced into the under-regulated private rental market.
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How Help to Buy broke the housing market
Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to bring back a policy which critics say contributed to the housing crisis.
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Could housing be the next big political divide?
Reports the Tories will resurrect Help to Buy open them up to accusations of being tired and out of ideas.
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Why are more homeless people dying?
New figures show that the number of people dying while homeless rose 20 per cent in England and Wales in…
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