Housing

This project offers homeless people a home for life: ‘We want to end homelessness one person at a time’
Homelessness

This project offers homeless people a home for life: ‘We want to end homelessness one person at a time’

‘Being here has given me the strength to stay clean. It gives you hope for the future,’ says Storm, a resident at a new Housing First project in East London

Inside the Big Issue: The UK riots, one year on
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The UK riots, one year on

Last July, Britain was gripped by a wave of violent unrest. One year on, the Big Issue reflects on what has – and hasn’t – changed

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

Homelessness is on the rise all around the UK. These are the rough sleeping figures and homelessness facts you need to know

Paying rent on time could finally start helping renters get a mortgage: ‘A very positive step’
Renting

Paying rent on time could finally start helping renters get a mortgage: ‘A very positive step’

Number of children in temporary accommodation in England hits new record high
Homelessness

Number of children in temporary accommodation in England hits new record high

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Renters’ Rights Bill clears House of Lords bringing to end peers’ ‘tenant and landlord battle’
Renting

Renters’ Rights Bill clears House of Lords bringing to end peers’ ‘tenant and landlord battle’

The Renters’ Rights Bill promises more security – but it won’t tackle high rents crippling renters
Paul Shanks

The Renters’ Rights Bill promises more security – but it won’t tackle high rents crippling renters

Letters: Why are people ready to hand our NHS to Farage and his millionaires?
Letters

Letters: Why are people ready to hand our NHS to Farage and his millionaires?

Homeless people were given free cash to buy what they want – here’s what they spent their money on
Homelessness

Homeless people were given free cash to buy what they want – here’s what they spent their money on

The 2012 Olympics promised to regenerate East London. What went wrong?
Regeneration

The 2012 Olympics promised to regenerate East London. What went wrong?

Gen Z Londoners are handing out ‘awards’ to the organisations they blame for the housing crisis
Housing

Gen Z Londoners are handing out ‘awards’ to the organisations they blame for the housing crisis

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?
Renting

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?

Can building homes around and above railways help get Labour’s housebuilding plan on track?
Housing

Can building homes around and above railways help get Labour’s housebuilding plan on track?

This new opera influenced by homeless children shines light on UK’s housing crisis
Opera

This new opera influenced by homeless children shines light on UK’s housing crisis

I lived on a debt-stricken housing estate as an anthropologist – this is what I learned about poverty
Debt

I lived on a debt-stricken housing estate as an anthropologist – this is what I learned about poverty

The housing crisis isn’t a competition between helping ‘our own’ and supporting others
Nosheen Malik

The housing crisis isn’t a competition between helping ‘our own’ and supporting others

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn’t go far enough, campaigners say
Refugees

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn’t go far enough, campaigners say

Black and minority households ‘forced to cut their hair and hide their accents’ to get social housing
Racism

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

Sky-high rents mean ageing tenants ‘won’t be able to retire’ – adding billions to the benefits bill
RENTING

Sky-high rents mean ageing tenants ‘won’t be able to retire’ – adding billions to the benefits bill

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

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

Homeless young people slapped with £1,800 carpet bill after finally being housed
Homelessness

Homeless young people slapped with £1,800 carpet bill after finally being housed

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Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’
Poverty

Thousands of Brit-born children with migrant parents face destitution: ‘Don’t deny children their rights’

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

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

Over 10 times more women sleeping rough than official stats suggest, report says
Rough sleeping

Over 10 times more women sleeping rough than official stats suggest, report says

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

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