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Right to Buy sales are set to plummet – but Labour is still facing £50bn bill to fix housing crisis
Housing crisis

Right to Buy sales are set to plummet – but Labour is still facing £50bn bill to fix housing crisis

Resolution Foundation analysis found more than 400,000 affordable homes are needed to return stock to 2010 levels, costing an estimated £50bn

Empty buildings are a housing resource waiting to be tapped – so why don’t we?
Henrietta Blackmore

Empty buildings are a housing resource waiting to be tapped – so why don’t we?

The national director at Habitat for Humanity, a global charity dedicated to building and improving homes for those in need, explains why converting empty spaces is essential to address the housing crisis 

‘This is the dream’: These Londoners built their own homes to beat sky-high house prices
Housing

‘This is the dream’: These Londoners built their own homes to beat sky-high house prices

Rural Urban Synthesis Society’s self-build project is the biggest of its kind in London and is the culmination of a 15-year dream that shows an alternative vision of tackling the housing crisis

Work starting on new affordable homes in London at record low: ‘People will become homeless’
Housing crisis

Work starting on new affordable homes in London at record low: ‘People will become homeless’

How Labour’s housebuilding target of 1.5 million new homes hinges on just six private companies
Housebuilding

How Labour’s housebuilding target of 1.5 million new homes hinges on just six private companies

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Housing estate residents fear their family homes being bulldozed to make way for ‘gentrification’
Housing

Housing estate residents fear their family homes being bulldozed to make way for ‘gentrification’

When will house prices go down?
House Prices

When will house prices go down?

Tories have failed – only Labour has vision and will to tackle homelessness, says shadow minister
Mike Amesbury MP

Tories have failed – only Labour has vision and will to tackle homelessness, says shadow minister

Affordable housing straight from the factory floor: Could modular homes help end homelessness?
Housing

Affordable housing straight from the factory floor: Could modular homes help end homelessness?

How we can end the housing crisis and fix the UK, explained
Rachael Williamson and John Perry

How we can end the housing crisis and fix the UK, explained

Why The Big Issue has launched a new campaign to End Housing Insecurity Now
Opinion

Why The Big Issue has launched a new campaign to End Housing Insecurity Now

Whenever the government wants to distract us from the important stuff, there’s a crackdown
Paul McNamee

Whenever the government wants to distract us from the important stuff, there’s a crackdown

There’s a letting agency actually trying to fix the housing crisis. Here’s how
Housing

There’s a letting agency actually trying to fix the housing crisis. Here’s how

Why we need to create decent and affordable homes for all
Big Futures

Why we need to create decent and affordable homes for all

The UK’s first 3D printed houses will go to homeless veterans
Remembrance

The UK’s first 3D printed houses will go to homeless veterans

Landlords set to pass on mortgage rate hikes to tenants
Renting

Landlords set to pass on mortgage rate hikes to tenants

Will a stamp duty cut fix the housing crisis?
Stamp Duty

Will a stamp duty cut fix the housing crisis?

6 things we learned from the government’s new rough sleeping strategy
Rough sleeping

6 things we learned from the government’s new rough sleeping strategy

Calls for social housing rent strike after government rejects freeze
Social housing

Calls for social housing rent strike after government rejects freeze

Housing activists launch campaign calling for Airbnb regulation
Airbnb

Housing activists launch campaign calling for Airbnb regulation

90% of rented homes in England unaffordable for people on housing benefit
RENTING

90% of rented homes in England unaffordable for people on housing benefit

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First-time buyers have seen house prices surge three times faster than before Covid
Housing

First-time buyers have seen house prices surge three times faster than before Covid

These innovative affordable housing projects are up for a prestigious architecture award
Affordable Housing

These innovative affordable housing projects are up for a prestigious architecture award

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