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What Labour’s autumn budget means for the housing crisis and homelessness
What Labour’s autumn budget means for the housing crisis and homelessness
Labour is under pressure to tackle a housing crisis that is driving surging homelessness. Reeves announced new cash to build more homes, changes to the Right to Buy scheme and long-term certainty for social housing providers
Benefits bill pushes government spending on housing to highest level since records began
Benefits bill pushes government spending on housing to highest level since records began
Government housing spending at record highs; debate over benefits vs social housing investment continues
Suspend Right to Buy to help tackle social housing crisis, government told: ‘It’s exploitative’
Suspend Right to Buy to help tackle social housing crisis, government told: ‘It’s exploitative’
‘Right to Buy means the housing system is like a colander, with holes in it. You build more houses, but more houses get sold, end up on the private market and get rented out by landlords’
How a council used a little-known 20-year-old law to seize properties off a rogue landlord
How a council used a little-known 20-year-old law to seize properties off a rogue landlord
Labour urged to set social housing targets and kickstart a ‘council house revolution’
Labour urged to set social housing targets and kickstart a ‘council house revolution’
Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs
Four problems Labour must solve to deliver the social housing Britain urgently needs
Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years
Council spending on homelessness triples in eight years
Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer’s plan to end the UK’s housing crisis
Labour manifesto: What we learned about Keir Starmer’s plan to end the UK’s housing crisis
Should we end Thatcher’s Right to Buy? How scrapping scheme could help solve UK’s housing crisis
Should we end Thatcher’s Right to Buy? How scrapping scheme could help solve UK’s housing crisis
We need social housing so young people can grow up without homelessness – it just makes sense
We need social housing so young people can grow up without homelessness – it just makes sense
More than four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy now owned by private landlords
More than four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy now owned by private landlords
Local authority funding crisis ‘putting future of council housing under threat’
Local authority funding crisis ‘putting future of council housing under threat’
Sadiq Khan’s Right to Buy-back scheme leads to return of 1,500 council homes
Sadiq Khan’s Right to Buy-back scheme leads to return of 1,500 council homes
Right to Buy: Fewer than half of homes sold off in the last year have been replaced
Right to Buy: Fewer than half of homes sold off in the last year have been replaced
Labour would allow communities to crack down on holiday lets and buy failed football clubs
Labour would allow communities to crack down on holiday lets and buy failed football clubs
Revealed: At least 30,000 people have waited 10 years for social housing
Revealed: At least 30,000 people have waited 10 years for social housing
Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?
Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?
Help to Build scheme asks Brits to tackle the housing crisis – but ‘won’t reach those in need’
Help to Build scheme asks Brits to tackle the housing crisis – but ‘won’t reach those in need’
Boris Johnson’s plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled ‘baffling and unworkable’
Boris Johnson’s plans to expand Right to Buy housing scheme labelled ‘baffling and unworkable’
Right to Buy: Boris Johnson’s plan to extend scheme branded the ‘opposite of what the country needs’
