housing Articles

Conservative-run Barnet council recently announced a review of housing allocations policy, which will force victims of domestic violence to declare themselves homeless in order to be rehoused away from their abusers. The council's plan will effectively strip domestic...

Garden cities are making for a fascinating debate. The country needs more homes and there is a good cross-party consensus on the need to build garden cities. There also seems to be growing sense of consensus that they should be locally led or community based. This...

The general election is now less than eight months away and as the political battlelines are being drawn Labour is defining a new message: gaining power to give it away. The period since the last general election has been interesting. With unprecedented cuts targeted...

Londoners will vote for their next mayor on 5 May 2016, just under a year after the nation votes in the 2015 general election. However, these two elections are likely to be contested on very different issues. Much attention has been devoted to the increasing...