right to buy

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs
Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, and Luke Charters, Labour’s candidate for York Outer, speak to apprentices at Persimmon Homes Germany Beck in York.
Social housing

Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs

Keir Starmer’s party have promised to build 1.5 million homes and prioritise social rent homes. But homebuilders are warning there are several barriers to ending the housing crisis
Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years
silhouette of person looking out of the window
Homelessness

Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years

Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer's plan to end the UK's housing crisis
Labour leader Keir Starmer launches manifesto including promises to fix the housing crisis
General election 2024

Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer's plan to end the UK's housing crisis

Should we end Thatcher's Right to Buy? How scrapping scheme could help solve UK's housing crisis
Right to Buy

Should we end Thatcher's Right to Buy? How scrapping scheme could help solve UK's housing crisis

We need social housing so young people can grow up without homelessness – it just makes sense
Tom Kerridge

We need social housing so young people can grow up without homelessness – it just makes sense

More than four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy now owned by private landlords
council homes sold off under Right to Buy
Social housing

More than four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy now owned by private landlords

Local authority funding crisis 'putting future of council housing under threat'
council housing
Social housing

Local authority funding crisis 'putting future of council housing under threat'

Our housing crisis has been building for years
The Interior of slum housing
John Bird

Our housing crisis has been building for years

Government will pay landlords 5 times more than it will spend on affordable housing in next 4 years
affordable housing
Housing crisis

Government will pay landlords 5 times more than it will spend on affordable housing in next 4 years

Sadiq Khan's Right to Buy-back scheme leads to return of 1,500 council homes
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan visits new council homes at Agar Grove in Camden in November 2021.
Right to Buy

Sadiq Khan's Right to Buy-back scheme leads to return of 1,500 council homes

Right to Buy: Fewer than half of homes sold off in the last year have been replaced
Right to Buy

Right to Buy: Fewer than half of homes sold off in the last year have been replaced

Labour would allow communities to crack down on holiday lets and buy failed football clubs
community right to buy
Levelling Up

Labour would allow communities to crack down on holiday lets and buy failed football clubs

Revealed: At least 30,000 people have waited 10 years for social housing
Image of council housing flats
Social housing

Revealed: At least 30,000 people have waited 10 years for social housing

Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?
Home ownership

Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?

Help to Build scheme asks Brits to tackle the housing crisis – but ‘won’t reach those in need’
Help to Build
Housing crisis

Help to Build scheme asks Brits to tackle the housing crisis – but ‘won’t reach those in need’

Boris Johnson's plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled 'baffling and unworkable'
Housing crisis

Boris Johnson's plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled 'baffling and unworkable'

Right to Buy: Boris Johnson's plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’
right to buy
Right to Buy

Right to Buy: Boris Johnson's plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’