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Housing

Single mum forced to share bed with daughter in 'severely overcrowded' flat wins legal battle
Housing campaigners call for no more overcrowding
Homelessness

Single mum forced to share bed with daughter in 'severely overcrowded' flat wins legal battle

Sonia took action against Hackney Council after temporary accommodation placement left her and daughter sharing bed in room doubling up as a kitchen and living room
Labour promises 'biggest building boom in a generation' in reform of UK's planning system
Labour deputy prime minister Angela Rayner in construction gear
Planning

Labour promises 'biggest building boom in a generation' in reform of UK's planning system

'A jigsaw with pieces missing': Why are new housing estates forcing people to rely on cars?
Housing

'A jigsaw with pieces missing': Why are new housing estates forcing people to rely on cars?

Andy Burnham: 'Right to Buy scheme means homelessness will get worse before it gets better'
Homelessness

Andy Burnham: 'Right to Buy scheme means homelessness will get worse before it gets better'

How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis
Housing crisis

How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Landlords of overcrowded flat fined £12k after fire killed dad-of-two
The damage following a deadly fire at Maddocks House in Shadwell
Shadwell fire

Landlords of overcrowded flat fined £12k after fire killed dad-of-two

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz
Housing Justice refugee lodgings programme
Refugee homelessness

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz

Will Labour's 'radical' leasehold reforms lead to a 'two-tier' system for flat owners?
Cladding protest in Westminster
Leasehold reform

Will Labour's 'radical' leasehold reforms lead to a 'two-tier' system for flat owners?

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025

Big Issue founder launches bid to ban no-fault evictions as soon as Renters' Rights Bill is made law
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird
RENTING

Big Issue founder launches bid to ban no-fault evictions as soon as Renters' Rights Bill is made law

Rough sleeping in England soars by 20% in just a year: 'It's a red alert warning'
a homeless man rough sleeping
Homelessness

Rough sleeping in England soars by 20% in just a year: 'It's a red alert warning'

DWP to 're-examine' controversial universal credit rule for paying off rental debts
DWP secretary Liz Kendall
Universal credit

DWP to 're-examine' controversial universal credit rule for paying off rental debts

Labour accused of 'turning its back on disabled people' in Grenfell Inquiry response: 'We're dismayed'
Grenfell memorial
Grenfell

Labour accused of 'turning its back on disabled people' in Grenfell Inquiry response: 'We're dismayed'

Grenfell fire families face waiting 10 years to see changes and reforms fully implemented
A sign saying
Grenfell

Grenfell fire families face waiting 10 years to see changes and reforms fully implemented

Labour doubles emergency homelessness funding to £60m: 'No one should live in fear of losing their home'
Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali and housing secretary Angela Rayner
Homelessness

Labour doubles emergency homelessness funding to £60m: 'No one should live in fear of losing their home'

How investing in one-stop shops to fix UK's horror homes could pay for itself
DIY
Housing

How investing in one-stop shops to fix UK's horror homes could pay for itself

Would 1.5m landlords selling up and leaving the rental market really be a bad thing?
RENTING

Would 1.5m landlords selling up and leaving the rental market really be a bad thing?

Meet the couple who gave away their two houses to help people in homelessness: 'It's satisfying'
Valerie and Chris Norris, a couple in Swansea, who have donated their houses to fight homelessness
Homelessness

Meet the couple who gave away their two houses to help people in homelessness: 'It's satisfying'

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?
rents uk
Renting

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?

The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration
builders
Housebuilding

The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration

Rough sleeping a 'source of national shame', government told
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird at a rough sleeping inquiry
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping a 'source of national shame', government told

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Most Brits don't realise you can be homeless without sleeping rough
homelessness
Homelessness

Most Brits don't realise you can be homeless without sleeping rough

More than 1.4 million homes with planning permission left unbuilt, report finds
houses in England
Housing

More than 1.4 million homes with planning permission left unbuilt, report finds

Where will the government build the 'next generation' of new towns?
Prime minister Keir Starmer in a hard hat on a building site
New towns

Where will the government build the 'next generation' of new towns?

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'
Simon from Chatham has faced a section 21 eviction
Renting

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'

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