housing Articles

Labour has to make some key decisions in 2014 if housing policy is to be a significant asset to our election prospects in 2015. Labour will fight the next general election on the ‘cost of living’, arguing that most people have not gained from any meagre economic...

Should people who lose a child be subjected after only three months to a tax on their housing? This is an issue highlighted by the National Bereavement Alliance. It says that when universal credit is introduced, families who have lost a loved one will not have the...

For the growing number of tenants in the private rental sector, it is not difficult to believe that they are the lowest of the low. You can’t buy a home of your own because property is simply too expensive, and your rent makes it impossible to save. Landlords have the...

Wandsworth is in a housing crisis – and the council’s just made it worse. Private rents in this leafy south London borough are up 14 per cent in a year. The average income of a homebuyer is now more than £100,000. Most young people know they have no chance of a...