Immigrants did not cause Britain’s social housing shortage
The idea that British nationals are passed over for social housing is a myth that refuses to die.
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Welcome to HMO Britain
While neighbours suffer, landlords are cashing in on Britain’s demand for houses in multiple occupation.
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Britain’s new-build nightmare
How the dream of home ownership ran into the reality of an under-regulated market.
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Labour’s housing slump
Who is to blame for the lack of progress towards the 1.5 million target?
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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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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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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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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 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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Nearly two thirds of social workers say children live in homes with “excessive levels of mould”
A survey from the Social Workers Union reveals the extent of poor housing conditions in the UK.
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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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Why Michael Gove’s planning reforms won’t deliver sustainable housing
The Housing Secretary’s new planning framework for England does little to encourage net zero development.
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Grenfell shocked us all, but the UK still doesn’t take fire safety seriously
The poor and disadvantaged are forced to live in unsafe or overcrowded housing – regulation needs to catch up.
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Leasehold is the ultimate symbol of our broken economic model
To challenge rentier capitalism, the next Labour government should end the great leasehold con.
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Where is all the affordable housing?
Thatcher’s government set a housing policy paradigm that no government since has been able to change.
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Housing benefits still won’t keep up with skyrocketing rents
Despite what Jeremy Hunt said in his Autumn Statement, reforms to the Local Housing Allowance don’t go anywhere near far…
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Partner content
Why the next government must bolster mutuals
Diverse business models in the finance sector can help beat the housing crisis and fight fraud.