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Renting

Number of kids in temporary housing reaches record high: 'Labour must get to grips with this crisis'
A couple in temporary accommodation with a dog
Homelessness

Number of kids in temporary housing reaches record high: 'Labour must get to grips with this crisis'

Labour's rent reforms will cost landlords just £22 a year – but some say that's still too much
placards reading 'Power to the Renters' and 'Homes 4 All'
Renting

Labour's rent reforms will cost landlords just £22 a year – but some say that's still too much

How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?
A plumber is reaching up into the bottom of a boiler in a white room
Renting

How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?

What to do about mould and damp in a rented property
a horizontal view of the top floors on a row of terraced houses
Housing

What to do about mould and damp in a rented property

Mum-of-three hit with 'revenge eviction' after asking for repairs: 'It felt like the end of the world'
Hazell and her three kids faced homelessness until Shelter stepped in
Renting

Mum-of-three hit with 'revenge eviction' after asking for repairs: 'It felt like the end of the world'

Surging rental prices are dwarfing inflation – and not enough people are talking about it
To Let signs to attract renters
RENTING

Surging rental prices are dwarfing inflation – and not enough people are talking about it

Renters' Rights Bill ‘can’t come soon enough’ as Section 21 eviction claims at eight-year high
Renters could face a further wait to see no-fault evictions scrapped through Renters Reform Bill
Renting

Renters' Rights Bill ‘can’t come soon enough’ as Section 21 eviction claims at eight-year high

Autumn budget: Labour's failure to raise housing benefit to keep up with rents is 'deeply worrying'
a person's hands on a calculator
Housing benefits

Autumn budget: Labour's failure to raise housing benefit to keep up with rents is 'deeply worrying'

Labour must increase housing benefit in autumn budget or risk making pensioners homeless
Pensioner Rob can't retire because he's renting
Joanna Elson

Labour must increase housing benefit in autumn budget or risk making pensioners homeless

Household overcrowding: Is there enough space in your home?
flats in london
housing

Household overcrowding: Is there enough space in your home?

How to apply for a council house
a red-bricked semi-detached house
Housing

How to apply for a council house

What is bedroom tax and how does it affect your benefits?
one side of a bedframe against a wall next to a bedside table with books and a plant on it
social housing

What is bedroom tax and how does it affect your benefits?

Will Labour's employment and renting reform bills finally end millennials' insecurity?
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner
Alice Martin

Will Labour's employment and renting reform bills finally end millennials' insecurity?

Getting a lodger: How to get started
housing

Getting a lodger: How to get started

What is a sitting tenant?
renting

What is a sitting tenant?

Labour's Renters' Rights Bill will 'put decency in the heart of the private rented sector'
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner
RENTING

Labour's Renters' Rights Bill will 'put decency in the heart of the private rented sector'

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How Labour's Renters' Rights Bill is aiming to save renters from 'fear of eviction'
Renters at a protest
RENTING

How Labour's Renters' Rights Bill is aiming to save renters from 'fear of eviction'

Renters kicked out by no-fault evictions pay thousands to find a new home: 'It's totally unjust'
Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner
RENTING

Renters kicked out by no-fault evictions pay thousands to find a new home: 'It's totally unjust'

Habitual residence test: How to get help with housing
housing

Habitual residence test: How to get help with housing

What happens at a possession hearing?
eviction

What happens at a possession hearing?

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