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Renting

Calls for immediate no-fault eviction ban as new stats cast doubt on so-called landlord exodus
Lord John Bird
Renting

Calls for immediate no-fault eviction ban as new stats cast doubt on so-called landlord exodus

Should tenants get two-months' rent compensation from their landlord when they're evicted?
Renters from Acorn in Cardiff
RENTING

Should tenants get two-months' rent compensation from their landlord when they're evicted?

Labour must stop landlords hiking rents if Keir Starmer is to help working people
Renters protest high rents in London
Nye Jones

Labour must stop landlords hiking rents if Keir Starmer is to help working people

Are landlords really selling up? Number of new homes available for rent, revealed by Rightmove
a landlord's hand holding keys on a stairway
RENTING

Are landlords really selling up? Number of new homes available for rent, revealed by Rightmove

What do Trump's tariffs mean for UK mortgage rates and private rents?
Keir Starmer and Donald Trump
Housing

What do Trump's tariffs mean for UK mortgage rates and private rents?

One in four renters struggle to get full deposit back from landlord: 'We're getting a raw deal'
house keys being passed between hands of renters and landlord
Renting

One in four renters struggle to get full deposit back from landlord: 'We're getting a raw deal'

Labour is 'missing a trick' by not taxing housing wealth, expert says
UK houses from above
Housing

Labour is 'missing a trick' by not taxing housing wealth, expert says

Young people quitting London over housing crisis: 'Owning a home is a distant dream'
London skyline
Housing crisis

Young people quitting London over housing crisis: 'Owning a home is a distant dream'

Tenants win more than £250,000 of rent back from billionaire landlord in five-year legal battle
Somerford Grove Renters in Hackney
Renting

Tenants win more than £250,000 of rent back from billionaire landlord in five-year legal battle

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about
DWP, benefits
Social Justice

Benefits, rent rises, and energy bill hikes: All the tax year changes in April 2025 you need to know about

Covid effectively ended rough sleeping with the Everyone In scheme. So where did it all go wrong?
A couple rough sleeping under a blanket in London
Homelessness

Covid effectively ended rough sleeping with the Everyone In scheme. So where did it all go wrong?

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz
Housing Justice refugee lodgings programme
Refugee homelessness

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz

Big Issue founder launches bid to ban no-fault evictions as soon as Renters' Rights Bill is made law
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird
RENTING

Big Issue founder launches bid to ban no-fault evictions as soon as Renters' Rights Bill is made law

DWP to 're-examine' controversial universal credit rule for paying off rental debts
DWP secretary Liz Kendall
Universal credit

DWP to 're-examine' controversial universal credit rule for paying off rental debts

Would 1.5m landlords selling up and leaving the rental market really be a bad thing?
RENTING

Would 1.5m landlords selling up and leaving the rental market really be a bad thing?

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'
Simon from Chatham has faced a section 21 eviction
Renting

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour to crack down on rogue landlords claiming uncapped housing benefit for horror homes
housing secretary Angela Rayner
Housing benefit

Labour to crack down on rogue landlords claiming uncapped housing benefit for horror homes

Students call for Tripadvisor-style website to shame landlords over damp and mouldy homes
Photo shows Bristol student Livy Naylor's bathroom, which was plagued by mould issues over the last year
RENTING

Students call for Tripadvisor-style website to shame landlords over damp and mouldy homes

Manchester is hailed as a model for regeneration – but gentrification is leaving people behind
Manchester
Sophie Flinders

Manchester is hailed as a model for regeneration – but gentrification is leaving people behind

Labour says new energy efficiency rules for landlords will save renters £240 a year on bills
Environment secretary Ed Miliband
Energy bills

Labour says new energy efficiency rules for landlords will save renters £240 a year on bills