Awaab Ishak
What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
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What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
The Renters Reform Bill is dead, long live the Renters’ Rights Bill. Can Labour’s plan to fix the broken private rented sector succeed where the Tories failed?
Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer's plan to end the UK's housing crisis
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Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer's plan to end the UK's housing crisis
Awaab's Law: Why the government is forcing failing landlords to fix social housing more quickly
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Awaab's Law: Why the government is forcing failing landlords to fix social housing more quickly
UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy: 'We are a joke'
UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy: 'We are a joke'
It's a 'surprise' more homeless children haven't died in temporary accommodation, charity says
It's a 'surprise' more homeless children haven't died in temporary accommodation, charity says
Social housing at 'breaking point', housing ombudsman warns
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Social housing at 'breaking point', housing ombudsman warns
Some renters are put off asking their landlords for repairs out of fear of rent increases
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Some renters are put off asking their landlords for repairs out of fear of rent increases
Protect tenants from living in mould, damp and 'third-world poverty conditions', government told
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Protect tenants from living in mould, damp and 'third-world poverty conditions', government told
Outrage after one-year-old baby hospitalised six times due to damp and mould-ridden rental home
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Outrage after one-year-old baby hospitalised six times due to damp and mould-ridden rental home
Awaab Ishak: Toddler's death from mould leads to record social housing complaints
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Awaab Ishak: Toddler's death from mould leads to record social housing complaints
Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord 'will not address the imbalance'
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Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord 'will not address the imbalance'
The disturbing parallels between Awaab Ishak’s death in Rochdale and the Grenfell Tower disaster
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