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How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
uk heatwave
Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

When temperatures soar, people sleeping on the streets are at risk of dehydration and sunstroke. Here’s how you can help.
I fell for a rent scam and lost £1,000 – so I helped other renters fight the scammers
Harleen Nottay presenter of UNTOLD, SCAMMED: BRITAIN’S RENTAL RIP OFF
RENTING

I fell for a rent scam and lost £1,000 – so I helped other renters fight the scammers

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather
Nicholas, in Liverpool, is wearing a grey beanie and coat with lots of layers under it
Homelessness

How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

Housing benefit: How to claim and what to expect
Housing benefits

Housing benefit: How to claim and what to expect

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?
A plumber is reaching up into the bottom of a boiler in a white room
Renting

How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?

What to do about mould and damp in a rented property
a horizontal view of the top floors on a row of terraced houses
Housing

What to do about mould and damp in a rented property

Can you get a mortgage on benefits?
a person's hands are seen pasting a 'sold' sticker over a 'for sale' sign outside a house
housing

Can you get a mortgage on benefits?

Lodger rights: Everything you need to know
lodger rights
renting

Lodger rights: Everything you need to know

Getting a lodger: How to get started
housing

Getting a lodger: How to get started

What is a sitting tenant?
renting

What is a sitting tenant?

Habitual residence test: How to get help with housing
housing

Habitual residence test: How to get help with housing

What happens at a possession hearing?
eviction

What happens at a possession hearing?

What are service charges? Everything you need to know
a worker replastering a wall
renting

What are service charges? Everything you need to know

What is a restrictive covenant?
housing

What is a restrictive covenant?

Section 21 eviction notice: What you should know
several moving boxes stacked on a palette
renting

Section 21 eviction notice: What you should know

Facing eviction? Everything you need to know
set of keys on a table attached to a keyring in the shape of a house
renting

Facing eviction? Everything you need to know

Section 8 eviction notice: Everything you need to know
a woman surrounded by moving boxes carrying a larger box
renting

Section 8 eviction notice: Everything you need to know

What is an illegal eviction?
a man knelt down fixing the lock on a door
renting

What is an illegal eviction?

Will the council rehouse me if I get evicted?
a block of council flats
social housing

Will the council rehouse me if I get evicted?

What is a retaliatory eviction?
A to let sign outside a row of houses
renting

What is a retaliatory eviction?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Disabled facilities grant: What is it and can I get one?
A woman in a wheelchair cutting food on a kitchen counter
housing

Disabled facilities grant: What is it and can I get one?

Home improvement grants: What you should know
a construction worker installing insulation
housing

Home improvement grants: What you should know

Gas safety checks in rented properties
renting

Gas safety checks in rented properties

What to do about a leak from the flat above
A man fixing a leaking kitchen tap
housing

What to do about a leak from the flat above

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