Housing

Meet the people helping homeless women get vital smear tests: ‘You’ve got to hear their voices’
Women's health

Meet the people helping homeless women get vital smear tests: ‘You’ve got to hear their voices’

It’s 1,000 days since Vagrancy Act was repealed – so why are rough sleepers still criminalised?
Rough sleeping

It’s 1,000 days since Vagrancy Act was repealed – so why are rough sleepers still criminalised?

Tariffs, trade wars and unpredictability: What Trump 2.0 means for UK house prices
Donald Trump

Tariffs, trade wars and unpredictability: What Trump 2.0 means for UK house prices

Labour triples emergency funding to help rough sleepers in freezing temperatures
Homelessness

Labour triples emergency funding to help rough sleepers in freezing temperatures

Wages outside of London and South East are worse now than in 2008 – can Labour turn things around?
Andrew Carter

Wages outside of London and South East are worse now than in 2008 – can Labour turn things around?

Community-led housing is not just for city dwellers – it can boost overlooked rural areas too
Tom Bennett

Community-led housing is not just for city dwellers – it can boost overlooked rural areas too

Tories under fire over U-turn on pledge to protect renters from no-fault evictions
Renting

Tories under fire over U-turn on pledge to protect renters from no-fault evictions

Social housing went from a source of pride to a place of prejudice. It’s time to smash the stigma
Michael Verrier

Social housing went from a source of pride to a place of prejudice. It’s time to smash the stigma

What is the Renters’ Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
RENTING

What is the Renters’ Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions

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

Government rejects MPs’ bid to cap record-high rents as Renters’ Rights Bill passes through Commons
RENTING

Government rejects MPs’ bid to cap record-high rents as Renters’ Rights Bill passes through Commons

Labour’s rental reforms not doing enough for disabled tenants, MPs and campaigners warn
Renters' Rights Bill

Labour’s rental reforms not doing enough for disabled tenants, MPs and campaigners warn

Comedian Dom Joly meets Big Issue vendor André to lift the lid on homelessness – and his new novel
Our vendors

Comedian Dom Joly meets Big Issue vendor André to lift the lid on homelessness – and his new novel

Woman with heart condition, 72, hit with revenge eviction after asking landlord for simple repairs
No-fault evictions

Woman with heart condition, 72, hit with revenge eviction after asking landlord for simple repairs

Rents have ballooned out of control – we must stop renters facing hikes higher than wage rises
Paula Barker MP

Rents have ballooned out of control – we must stop renters facing hikes higher than wage rises

Renters’ Rights Bill must stop landlords raising rents above wages or inflation, government told
RENTING

Renters’ Rights Bill must stop landlords raising rents above wages or inflation, government told

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Can Starmer’s government fix the housing crisis? Their future depends on it
Liam Geraghty

Can Starmer’s government fix the housing crisis? Their future depends on it

I was made homeless in my 60s and slept on night buses. Then I found opera – and it saved me
Streetwise Opera

I was made homeless in my 60s and slept on night buses. Then I found opera – and it saved me

I’m paying £5,000 a year on energy bills – and was left without heating and hot water as snow fell
ENERGY BILLS

I’m paying £5,000 a year on energy bills – and was left without heating and hot water as snow fell

Building 1.5 million homes will only ‘make a dent’ in housing crisis, warns Angela Rayner
Housing crisis

Building 1.5 million homes will only ‘make a dent’ in housing crisis, warns Angela Rayner