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Leaseholders take cladding fight to parliament to demand action over unsafe homes

Residents caught up in the building safety crisis protested in Westminster to urge new housing secretary Michael Gove to act on the huge costs of fixing homes

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Politics

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick sacked in cabinet reshuffle

Westminster will get a fourth housing secretary in as many years as Michael Gove replaces Robert Jenrick in Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle

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Housing

Cladding group blasts government ‘magic money tree’ over £8.6bn homes fund

Leaseholders facing huge bills feel neglected and warn the government’s plan to build 120,000 affordable homes risks rewarding developers caught up in the building safety crisis.

Environment

‘Draughty and inefficient’ homes are worse for climate than cars

Housing

Leaseholders take cladding fight to London’s ‘sky pool’

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Housing

Can Britain’s empty homes shelter refugees from Afghanistan?

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Housing

Government risks pushing households into homelessness, campaigners warn

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Opinion

Why we need to change the narrative for social housing

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Opinion

Housing developers need to start designing for life

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Environment

Have residents solved the building safety crisis with the Polluter Pays Bill?

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Housing

How the building safety scandal feeds Britain’s housing crisis

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Opinion

The Building Safety Bill is clearly unjust if it can’t protect leaseholders

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Housing

‘Developers must pay!’ Cladding campaigners launch Downing Street protest

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