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Unlock billions in private investment to help fight poverty, next UK government told
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Unlock billions in private investment to help fight poverty, next UK government told

Sadiq Khan promises 6,000 rent control homes for London key workers: ‘I’ll be a renters’ champion’
Housing

Sadiq Khan promises 6,000 rent control homes for London key workers: ‘I’ll be a renters’ champion’

Single mum with arthritis faces homelessness after ‘absolutely disgusting’ no-fault eviction
Renting

Single mum with arthritis faces homelessness after ‘absolutely disgusting’ no-fault eviction

‘I feel judged for being smelly’: Millions can’t afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars
Hygiene poverty

‘I feel judged for being smelly’: Millions can’t afford to wash their clothes as hygiene poverty soars

‘A national scandal’: Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say
Cost of living crisis

‘A national scandal’: Shocking number of kids living in dangerously mouldy homes, social workers say

DWP recruiting ‘covert surveillance officers’ to snoop on benefit claimants: ‘I fear for the future’
Benefits

DWP recruiting ‘covert surveillance officers’ to snoop on benefit claimants: ‘I fear for the future’

‘Time for a new deal’: UK’s new minimum wage still not enough to cover ‘a decent standard of life’
Minimum wage

‘Time for a new deal’: UK’s new minimum wage still not enough to cover ‘a decent standard of life’

‘People should not be arrested if they smell’: Sunak facing revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness
Homelessness

‘People should not be arrested if they smell’: Sunak facing revolt over plan to criminalise homelessness

Inside the Big Issue: Once Upon a Time in the West Midlands
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Once Upon a Time in the West Midlands

Millions face paying more in energy bills than height of cost of living crisis. Here’s why
Cost of living crisis

Millions face paying more in energy bills than height of cost of living crisis. Here’s why

Leaked letter to Tory MPs reveals renting reforms will be ‘watered down’ to ‘appease landlords’
RENTING

Leaked letter to Tory MPs reveals renting reforms will be ‘watered down’ to ‘appease landlords’

Unsecured debt such as credit cards and loans at highest level in a decade, charity warns
Debt

Unsecured debt such as credit cards and loans at highest level in a decade, charity warns

Most tenants have never heard of the beleaguered Renters Reform Bill
Renting

Most tenants have never heard of the beleaguered Renters Reform Bill

Ralf Little on leaving Death in Paradise, his replacement and taking on Jeremy Hunt
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Ralf Little on leaving Death in Paradise, his replacement and taking on Jeremy Hunt

ONS U-turns on plan to stop publishing data on deaths of homeless people after furious outcry
homelessness

ONS U-turns on plan to stop publishing data on deaths of homeless people after furious outcry

UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy: ‘We are a joke’
Housing

UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy: ‘We are a joke’

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Inside the Big Issue: The glorious, chaotic, triumphant story of the Homeless World Cup
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The glorious, chaotic, triumphant story of the Homeless World Cup

More than 700,000 children plunged into poverty since Tories came to power: ‘We’re going backwards’
Child poverty

More than 700,000 children plunged into poverty since Tories came to power: ‘We’re going backwards’

‘We are heartbroken’: Hull group loses hip-hop bus which fights poverty and changes lives
Community

‘We are heartbroken’: Hull group loses hip-hop bus which fights poverty and changes lives

Millions of people at risk of ‘toxic cycle’ of long-term mental health and money problems
Cost of living crisis

Millions of people at risk of ‘toxic cycle’ of long-term mental health and money problems