Housing

Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here’s how
Lauren Aronin

Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here’s how

The Retreat Housing project adopts a community-led approach to support settlement and integration of refugees within the community

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025
Homelessness

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025

Councils across England and Wales provide shelter to rough sleepers when temperatures soar. Local authorities stepped in at least 149 times by mid-July this year compared to 93 times across the entirety of summer in 2024

Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is ‘a fatal tragedy waiting to happen’
Gypsies and Travellers

Hidden crisis of fires ripping through Gypsy and Traveller sites is ‘a fatal tragedy waiting to happen’

A spate of fires at Gypsy and Traveller sites across England in the last year have seen families displaced. Now the community are calling for more support

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes ‘ground-breaking’ housing bill
Housing

Rent controls coming to Scotland as Holyrood passes ‘ground-breaking’ housing bill

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham’s Britain would look like
Politics

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham’s Britain would look like

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Where are Labour’s new towns going to be built?
New towns

Where are Labour’s new towns going to be built?

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

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

Harris Dickinson: ‘There are so many injustices. How do you stay across all of them?’
Film

Harris Dickinson: ‘There are so many injustices. How do you stay across all of them?’

How the criminal justice system is setting people up to fail
Campbell Robb

How the criminal justice system is setting people up to fail

How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?
Renting

How long can a landlord leave you without hot water?

Tragic death of a Blackpool man sleeping in a tent dragged into asylum hotel row: ‘It’s entirely wrong’
Homelessness

Tragic death of a Blackpool man sleeping in a tent dragged into asylum hotel row: ‘It’s entirely wrong’

Brain disease linked to boxers and American football players found in homeless people
Homelessness

Brain disease linked to boxers and American football players found in homeless people

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?
Letters

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?

Blaming bats and newts for the housing problem is straight from the Trump playbook
Paul de Zylva

Blaming bats and newts for the housing problem is straight from the Trump playbook

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn
Homelessness

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025

Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?
Renting

Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership
John Bird

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership

Giving homeless people stable housing could save taxpayer £200m a year – if Labour wants to
ROUGH SLEEPING

Giving homeless people stable housing could save taxpayer £200m a year – if Labour wants to

Homelessness system in Scotland ‘at breaking point’ as rough sleeping surges
Homelessness

Homelessness system in Scotland ‘at breaking point’ as rough sleeping surges

Alison McGovern named as new homelessness minister after Rushanara Ali rent scandal
Homelessness

Alison McGovern named as new homelessness minister after Rushanara Ali rent scandal

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Opake on his boundary-pushing art: ‘I don’t think there’s anything more taboo than hentai porn’
Opake takeover

Opake on his boundary-pushing art: ‘I don’t think there’s anything more taboo than hentai porn’

Dear Steve Reed: We must do better at tackling homelessness – and fast
Duncan Shrubsole

Dear Steve Reed: We must do better at tackling homelessness – and fast

How taxing private landlords helped 1.1 million renters become first-time buyers
RENTING

How taxing private landlords helped 1.1 million renters become first-time buyers

Zarah Sultana calls for MPs to be banned from being landlords
Housing

Zarah Sultana calls for MPs to be banned from being landlords