Renting

AI is increasingly being used on listings for homes to rent. Is it acceptable or misleading?
The reality vs AI enhancement
Housing

AI is increasingly being used on listings for homes to rent. Is it acceptable or misleading?

Are renters being duped by AI-generated photos of properties, or do the images help to show the potential of a place?
Rents in the UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?
rents uk
Renting

Rents in the UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?

Rents are set to rise 5% by the end of 2026. Here’s what it could mean for homelessness
A couple being shown around a home by an estate agent
Renting

Rents are set to rise 5% by the end of 2026. Here’s what it could mean for homelessness

The failure to build enough social housing is leaving families £8,000 a year worse off
Housing

The failure to build enough social housing is leaving families £8,000 a year worse off

The Conservatives want to cut housing benefit to fund defence spending. But will it work?
Housing

The Conservatives want to cut housing benefit to fund defence spending. But will it work?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Not every pensioner lives in a mortgage-free home. Rising rents mean more are facing homelessness
Pensioner Rob can't retire because he's renting
Morgan Vine

Not every pensioner lives in a mortgage-free home. Rising rents mean more are facing homelessness

Protesters block roads and occupy offices over the cost of living: 'Bills are rising but so are we'
Acorn protesters occupied offices to protest the cost of living crisis
Protest

Protesters block roads and occupy offices over the cost of living: 'Bills are rising but so are we'

Renters still face living in draughty homes – even if their landlord is the King
King Charles III
Nye Jones

Renters still face living in draughty homes – even if their landlord is the King

If food prices had risen like rents since 1988, a block of cheese would cost £20
A grocery shop
food

If food prices had risen like rents since 1988, a block of cheese would cost £20

Awaab's Law is expanding beyond damp and mould in social housing. Here's what you need to know
Rochdale toddler Awaab Ishak died due to damp and mould in his social housing flat
Housing

Awaab's Law is expanding beyond damp and mould in social housing. Here's what you need to know

Oobah Butler tackles the housing crisis: 'We’ve become used to the fact that we are screwed'
Oobah Butlet
TV

Oobah Butler tackles the housing crisis: 'We’ve become used to the fact that we are screwed'

Just two out of every 100 rental homes are affordable on housing benefit: ‘An impossible situation’
a housing estate in Luton pictured from the air
Housing

Just two out of every 100 rental homes are affordable on housing benefit: ‘An impossible situation’

Landlords are still pocketing money from deposits using unfair tactics. We want to put a stop to it
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Dan Wilson Craw

Landlords are still pocketing money from deposits using unfair tactics. We want to put a stop to it

Two-thirds of renters left waiting for emergency repairs by 'rule-breaking' letting agents
An electrician holding cut wires
Housing

Two-thirds of renters left waiting for emergency repairs by 'rule-breaking' letting agents

‘My landlord doubled my rent after watching TikTok’: How to challenge unfair rent increases
London renter Pete Ely pictured outside
Renting

‘My landlord doubled my rent after watching TikTok’: How to challenge unfair rent increases

How privatisation is ruining your life and putting the UK out of step with the modern world
A protest against the £3 billion Thames Water bailout at the Royal Courts of Justice in February 2025
Opinion

How privatisation is ruining your life and putting the UK out of step with the modern world

How estate agent firms are cashing in on housing homeless families in London
an aerial shot of London
Housing

How estate agent firms are cashing in on housing homeless families in London

Cost of Rent Day: Renters reach the day when they finally earn enough to pay a year’s worth of rent
Renters at a protest
Renting

Cost of Rent Day: Renters reach the day when they finally earn enough to pay a year’s worth of rent

Renters like Natasha will no longer be scared of complaining about damp in case they're evicted
Generation Rent chief executive Ben Twomey
Section 21

Renters like Natasha will no longer be scared of complaining about damp in case they're evicted

The Renters' Rights Act must finally give tenants the service they pay landlords a premium for
a hand putting a key into another hand
Rachael Williamson

The Renters' Rights Act must finally give tenants the service they pay landlords a premium for

Thousands of renting households threatened with homelessness through no-fault eviction ahead of ban
renters protest in London with protesters holding placards
Renting

Thousands of renting households threatened with homelessness through no-fault eviction ahead of ban

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Renters’ Rights Act: ‘For too long, families have lived with the constant fear of eviction’
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Renting

Renters’ Rights Act: ‘For too long, families have lived with the constant fear of eviction’

The Renters’ Rights Act won’t make homes affordable – politicians must show renters they'll act
Renters protest at the National Housing Demonstration in London
Clara Collingwood

The Renters’ Rights Act won’t make homes affordable – politicians must show renters they'll act

Renting with pets: Know your rights
a woman sitting on a bed using a laptop, with a golden retriever lying beside her
renting

Renting with pets: Know your rights

The Renters' Rights Act is finally here. Here's what is changing for tenants and landlords
London Renters Union activists holding a placard which reads: 'High rents kill our communities', while protesting against sky-high rents in 2024
Renting

The Renters' Rights Act is finally here. Here's what is changing for tenants and landlords