Social housing

Family want justice after great-grandma's body found badly decomposed despite welfare checks
Justice

Family want justice after great-grandma's body found badly decomposed despite welfare checks

Christine Lawton's family believe scheduled weekly welfare checks were not carried out in her final days
Providing carpets in social housing won't be mandatory. It fails to meet basic standards of decency
rolled up carpet
Joe Carpenter

Providing carpets in social housing won't be mandatory. It fails to meet basic standards of decency

Letters: Our obsession with positivity is exhausting! Why is grief still such a taboo?
Letters

Letters: Our obsession with positivity is exhausting! Why is grief still such a taboo?

New Labour, new Britain? What did Tony Blair really do for housing?
Glen O’Hara

New Labour, new Britain? What did Tony Blair really do for housing?

The housing crisis is going nowhere. 2026 must offer a better vision for the future
Mark Washer

The housing crisis is going nowhere. 2026 must offer a better vision for the future

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Why we’re creating new housing union in 2026 to help renters, residents and leaseholders take on power
a raised fist
Suzanne Muna

Why we’re creating new housing union in 2026 to help renters, residents and leaseholders take on power

Labour aims to halve number of rough sleepers by 2029 with new £3.5bn homelessness strategy
homelessness minister Alison McGovern alongside Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
homelessness

Labour aims to halve number of rough sleepers by 2029 with new £3.5bn homelessness strategy

Revealed: Council sells homes for £10m under Right to Buy – then spends £33m buying them back
Yo-yo Homes

Revealed: Council sells homes for £10m under Right to Buy – then spends £33m buying them back

Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud: 'We need to place quality at the centre of our lives. Not quantity'
Housing

Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud: 'We need to place quality at the centre of our lives. Not quantity'

Mayors to get greater powers to build social homes in their regions: 'Go big, go bold, go build'
Housing secretary Steve Reed in high-vis and a hard hat
Social housing

Mayors to get greater powers to build social homes in their regions: 'Go big, go bold, go build'

The Yo-yo Home files: These are the Right to Buy properties councils have lost millions on buying back
Keir Starmer and a block of flats
Yo-yo Homes

The Yo-yo Home files: These are the Right to Buy properties councils have lost millions on buying back

Awaab's Law is about more than damp and mould – it’s about what kind of country we want to be
Awaab's Law lawyer Christian Weaver
Christian Weaver

Awaab's Law is about more than damp and mould – it’s about what kind of country we want to be

I've worked on the frontline making social housing repairs – Awaab's Law must bring real change
damp and mould
Joe Carpenter

I've worked on the frontline making social housing repairs – Awaab's Law must bring real change

Dad of boy who died due to mould in flat says he's 'proud' of his son for saving lives
Rochdale toddler Awaab Ishak died due to damp and mould in his social housing flat
Awaab's Law

Dad of boy who died due to mould in flat says he's 'proud' of his son for saving lives

Yo-yo Homes 'indefensible' and highlight broken system, MPs say after Big Issue's Right to Buy exposé
housing secretary Steve Reed with a red line over his face next to a block of flats
Right to Buy

Yo-yo Homes 'indefensible' and highlight broken system, MPs say after Big Issue's Right to Buy exposé

Reversing Right to Buy may sound radical. But it could fix the housing shortage
Peter Apps

Reversing Right to Buy may sound radical. But it could fix the housing shortage

The 'Yo-yo Homes', revealed: How ex-council tenants make over £200k selling homes back to councils
Housing

The 'Yo-yo Homes', revealed: How ex-council tenants make over £200k selling homes back to councils

My baby brother died after falling from a high-rise window. His life could have been saved
Exodus Eyob who died after falling from a seventh-floor flat
Housing

My baby brother died after falling from a high-rise window. His life could have been saved

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know
Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson MP

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know

Disabled Big Issue vendor Jason has fought 21 years for an accessible home. There are millions like him
Our Vendors

Disabled Big Issue vendor Jason has fought 21 years for an accessible home. There are millions like him

Black and minority households 'forced to cut their hair and hide their accents' to get social housing
A black woman sitting on a sofa speaking to a psychologist
Racism

Black and minority households 'forced to cut their hair and hide their accents' to get social housing

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
This rule change is helping care leavers and domestic abuse survivors to get social homes
care leavers hand in petition at Downing Street
Social housing

This rule change is helping care leavers and domestic abuse survivors to get social homes

Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner and housing minister Matthew Pennycook
Right to buy

Labour wants to shake-up the controversial Right to Buy scheme with these three steps

Labour wants to build 300,000 affordable and social homes in 10 years. But is it enough?
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner
Social housing

Labour wants to build 300,000 affordable and social homes in 10 years. But is it enough?

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing 'will literally save lives'
care leavers hand in petition at Downing Street
Social housing

Government pledge to help care leavers into social housing 'will literally save lives'