Lancaster University helped whitewash a housing associations’ dire record on mould and damp
Lancaster University researchers have helped to evaluate an indoor air quality (IAQ) campaign to improve the health of children living ...
Tag: housing
Homelessness has rocketed and the Tories should be ashamed of themselves
The latest government figures for England show the number of households in temporary accommodation has rocketed in the past 12 ...
It’s a new academic year at the UoM, but freshers are already threatening rent strikes over dire accommodation
The University of Manchester (UoM) is once again under fire over its dire student accommodation. This time, freshers are threatening ...
New report exposes high number of anonymous UK property owners
Over two-thirds of properties in the UK held by overseas shell companies still do not publish information about the identity ...
A tree ‘massacre’ in Essex reveals the rot at the root of one of our leading conservation charities
In part one of this three-part series, the Canary explored Taylor Wimpey's plan to tear down over 40 protected trees. ...
Developer Taylor Wimpey is destroying protected trees – but it’s no stranger to ecocide
In part one of this three-part series, the Canary explored how ecological consultant Middlemarch aided Taylor Wimpey in its application for ...
An ecological consultant has helped Taylor Wimpey sign off over 40 protected trees for the chop
This article was updated at 11.25am on Monday 11 September to reflect an error. It previously said that Middlemarch has ...
The scandal over government-owned flats in Islington poses the question ‘how many more are there?’
A block of Ministry of Justice (MoJ)-owned flats in Islington has been lying empty for years - all while desperate ...
Tory proposals to scrap EU water pollution rules are not the answer to the housing crisis
On 29 August, the Tory government tabled an amendment in the House of Lords that would strip back EU-era water ...
A court banning a landlord for just five years after he housed 40 people in a semi sums up our rotten housing system
A landlord in Brent, London, was renting a four-bedroom semi-detached house out to 40 people - with one person even ...
Cowardly UoM bosses discipline nine students over the ongoing rent strike
A disciplinary panel at the University of Manchester (UoM) has found nine students guilty of health and safety breaches. It's ...
Upcoming national day of action demands housing for ‘need not greed’
In March 2023, we reported on a new activist group called Housing Rebellion. Now, it will be making itself known ...
ACORN has been winning more victories for tenants across the UK
Tenants from the ACORN renters union have been winning victories across the UK over the last few weeks. Union branches ...
UoM students are not having it – despite cowardly bosses running to their lawyers
Students at the University of Manchester (UoM) have vowed to continue their rent strike into at least the next academic ...
Will the Renters Reform Bill do anything to help the UK’s rental market – and tenants?
The Renters Reform Bill was introduced to Parliament last month. It will bring some long-overdue reform to England’s housing laws, ...
Bosses are taking disciplinary action against UoM students – all because they protested over their digs
The University of Manchester (UoM) is taking disciplinary action against a group of students who exercised their right to free ...
Residents of a Greater Manchester tower block are joining together to organise against ‘miserable’ conditions
Residents of a tower block in Salford have been campaigning for decent living conditions. After Grenfell, potentially dangerous cladding was ...
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