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The Big Issue at 30: How has homelessness changed since our first edition?
News

The Big Issue at 30: How has homelessness changed since our first edition?

Finding happy homes with Hunters
Money

Finding happy homes with Hunters

Leaseholders take cladding fight to parliament to demand action over unsafe homes
cladding protest Westminster
Housing

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

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick sacked in cabinet reshuffle
Robert Jenrick housing secretary
Politics

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick sacked in cabinet reshuffle

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

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

'Draughty and inefficient' homes are worse for climate than cars
Environment

'Draughty and inefficient' homes are worse for climate than cars

Leaseholders take cladding fight to London's 'sky pool'
Housing

Leaseholders take cladding fight to London's 'sky pool'

Can Britain's empty homes shelter refugees from Afghanistan?
Housing

Can Britain's empty homes shelter refugees from Afghanistan?

Government risks pushing households into homelessness, campaigners warn
Housing

Government risks pushing households into homelessness, campaigners warn

Why we need to change the narrative for social housing
Mercy Denedo and Amanze Ejiogu

Why we need to change the narrative for social housing

Housing developers need to start designing for life
Laura Jane Clark

Housing developers need to start designing for life

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

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

How the building safety scandal feeds Britain's housing crisis
Housing

How the building safety scandal feeds Britain's housing crisis

The Building Safety Bill is clearly unjust if it can't protect leaseholders
Lucy Powell

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

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

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

‘A national scandal’: Ministers face call for public inquiry on fire safety
Housing

‘A national scandal’: Ministers face call for public inquiry on fire safety

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Building Safety Bill ‘won’t stop leaseholders being financially crippled’
Housing

Building Safety Bill ‘won’t stop leaseholders being financially crippled’

The holiday’s over, but who are the stamp duty winners and losers?
Who did the stamp duty holiday really benefit?
Housing

The holiday’s over, but who are the stamp duty winners and losers?

‘Every time I buy a coffee I think I should be saving for my cladding bill'
Sheffield leaseholder Jenni Garratt has been caught up in the building safety crisis
Housing

‘Every time I buy a coffee I think I should be saving for my cladding bill'

‘The plan was this is where I would live for life’
Birmingham leaseholder Sarah Rennie has been hit by the cladding crisis after Grenfell
Housing

‘The plan was this is where I would live for life’