Local councils have warned that turning offices into flats is actually making the housing crisis worse
The Local Government Association (LGA) said on 27 November that government rules on housing are “exacerbating” the shortage of affordable ...
Tag: housing
One image just annihilated the DWP’s most controversial benefit
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has seen one of its most controversial policies torn to bits in just ...
Campaign to end unfair eviction asks tenants to ‘vent your rent’
Mouldy walls, leaking pipes, unsafe appliances, huge rent increases, and threats of eviction if you dare to complain. Everyone has ...
Landlords make hundreds of families homeless each week and it’s completely legal
Landlords are evicting hundreds of families every week without giving a reason. And it's completely legal. New figures from campaign ...
The government could end rough sleeping overnight with one radical solution
On 12 August, the government announced its rough sleeping plan. And it's a truly pitiful response to England's rough sleeping ...
The government is facing pressure from all sides over the disappearance of its social housing green paper
In June 2018, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government - James Brokenshire - made a promise. He ...
A leaked email helps explain why Kensington and Chelsea Council has housed so few Grenfell survivors
A leaked email, seen by Inside Housing, encapsulates Kensington and Chelsea Council's continued disdain for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. ...
A mother threatened with homelessness by a Labour council just won a court battle in her fight to stay in London
On 26 July, Sara Abdalla - a single mother from the east London borough of Newham - won a court ...
Campaigners and local residents are furious with a Labour council for ‘allowing social and ethnic cleansing’
On 24 July, Tower Hamlets Council in east London approved a controversial redevelopment plan, to the fury of campaigners and ...
A GP’s emotional plea shows how Tory austerity is killing homeless people
A doctor has claimed that government austerity is killing homeless people. The homeless death toll has soared in 2018, with ...
The story of a mother’s fight to stay in London lays bare the brutality of the housing crisis
Sara is a mother of two living in the east London borough of Newham. Her children were brought up in ...
The latest English Housing Survey lays bare the perils of private renting
On 12 July, the government released the English Housing Survey for 2016-17. It lays bare the insecure and expensive reality ...
Despite Corbyn’s pledge, Labour councils are screwing over working-class Londoners
Jeremy Corbyn has declared that the Labour Party is once again the "political voice of the working class". Yet Labour-controlled ...
‘Meaningless’ and ‘purely cosmetic’. Campaigners aren’t buying the government’s latest housing reform.
On 1 July, the government announced a new housing proposal to reform England's hostile private-rented sector. Yet campaigners are dismissing ...
A new study shows how greed is killing off social housing
A survey by Inside Housing lists the 50 housing associations (HAs) that built the most homes in Britain in 2017/18. The findings ...
Conservative policy has led to a ‘staggering’ rise in old people becoming homeless
New government figures show that the number of older people becoming homeless is the highest in the past decade. These ...
123,000 children now live in temporary housing. The latest homelessness figures shame this government.
On 27 June, the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government released the statutory homelessness statistics for January to March ...
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