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Sadiq Khan promises 6,000 rent control homes for London key workers: 'I'll be a renters' champion'
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
Housing

Sadiq Khan promises 6,000 rent control homes for London key workers: 'I'll be a renters' champion'

Single mum with arthritis faces homelessness after 'absolutely disgusting' no-fault eviction
Debbie Graham from Carlisle is facing a no-fault eviction
Renting

Single mum with arthritis faces homelessness after 'absolutely disgusting' no-fault eviction

'I feel judged for being smelly': Millions can't afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars
hygiene poverty/ laundrette
Hygiene poverty

'I feel judged for being smelly': Millions can't afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars

'A national scandal': Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say
cold and damp
Cost of living crisis

'A national scandal': Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say

DWP recruiting 'covert surveillance officers' to snoop on benefit claimants: 'I fear for the future'
dwp mel stride
Benefits

DWP recruiting 'covert surveillance officers' to snoop on benefit claimants: 'I fear for the future'

'Time for a new deal': UK's new minimum wage still not enough to cover 'a decent standard of life'
minimum wage/ hospitality
Minimum wage

'Time for a new deal': UK's new minimum wage still not enough to cover 'a decent standard of life'

'People should not be arrested if they smell': Sunak facing revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness
The Criminal Justice Bill could be set to criminalise homelessness and rough sleeping
Homelessness

'People should not be arrested if they smell': Sunak facing revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness

Nish Kumar weighs in on Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel's role model status to British-Asians
Nish Kumar onstage in Edinburgh in 2016
Politics

Nish Kumar weighs in on Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel's role model status to British-Asians

Inside the Big Issue: Once Upon a Time in the West Midlands
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Once Upon a Time in the West Midlands

Millions face paying more in energy bills than height of cost of living crisis. Here's why
energy bills/ worry
Cost of living crisis

Millions face paying more in energy bills than height of cost of living crisis. Here's why

Leaked letter to Tory MPs reveals renting reforms will be 'watered down' to 'appease landlords'
Renters Reform Bill failed to tackling private renting crisis
RENTING

Leaked letter to Tory MPs reveals renting reforms will be 'watered down' to 'appease landlords'

Unsecured debt such as credit cards and loans at highest level in a decade, charity warns
debt/ credit card
Debt

Unsecured debt such as credit cards and loans at highest level in a decade, charity warns

Most tenants have never heard of the beleaguered Renters Reform Bill
Renters and the Renters Reform Bill
Renting

Most tenants have never heard of the beleaguered Renters Reform Bill

Ralf Little on leaving Death in Paradise, his replacement and taking on Jeremy Hunt
Ralf Little
Exclusive

Ralf Little on leaving Death in Paradise, his replacement and taking on Jeremy Hunt

ONS U-turns on plan to stop publishing data on deaths of homeless people after furious outcry
homeless deaths
homelessness

ONS U-turns on plan to stop publishing data on deaths of homeless people after furious outcry

UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy: 'We are a joke'
UK houses are the worst value for money
Housing

UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy: 'We are a joke'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Millions of kids are in poverty and Jeremy Hunt wants a 'carrot and stick' benefits system
jeremy hunt
benefits

Millions of kids are in poverty and Jeremy Hunt wants a 'carrot and stick' benefits system

Inside the Big Issue: The glorious, chaotic, triumphant story of the Homeless World Cup
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The glorious, chaotic, triumphant story of the Homeless World Cup

More than 700,000 children plunged into poverty since Tories came to power: 'We're going backwards'
Child poverty

More than 700,000 children plunged into poverty since Tories came to power: 'We're going backwards'

'We are heartbroken': Hull group loses hip-hop bus which fights poverty and changes lives
beats bus
Community

'We are heartbroken': Hull group loses hip-hop bus which fights poverty and changes lives

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