housing Articles

You’ve just moved into a new home: congratulations! You’ve paid a huge deposit, and discovered a host of hidden fees. Your new home is cold and damp. You know next-to-nothing about your landlord: is he competent? Does he have a criminal record? Then, after six months...

Homelessness is much worse than official figures show, according to the latest research from Crisis and JRF. A deepening crisis can be avoided – but we need a commitment to long-term, secure accommodation at prices that those on the lowest incomes can afford. The...

Visiting the hyper-marginal seat of Hampstead and Kilburn this morning to outline how Labour will help generation rent, shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds MP will have heard the real challenges facing people who rent privately. This seat is exactly the type of...

This week, Barnet began a public inquiry into one of the largest scale attempts to socially cleanse London that we will have ever seen under a Conservative administration, and it is right that a long-running and simmering issue is now in the national press. It...