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Rough sleeping has risen by 26% in a year amid the cost of living crisis
Homelessness

Rough sleeping has risen by 26% in a year amid the cost of living crisis

The annual “snapshot” count carried out over the winter has shown 3,069 people are estimated to be sleeping rough on any given night. That’s the biggest annual increase since 2015

Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord ‘will not address the imbalance’
Social housing

Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord ‘will not address the imbalance’

Housing campaigners say a new government training scheme aiming to help social housing tenants challenge their landlord over poor living conditions shows the existing model is “failing”

Home insulation stalled last year during ‘slam dunk fail’ Green Homes Grant scheme
Energy crisis

Home insulation stalled last year during ‘slam dunk fail’ Green Homes Grant scheme

The “botched” £1.5bn scheme was wound down last year and experts say the government is “failing to do anything meaningful” to tackle soaring energy costs after figures showed poor energy efficiency across England’s homes.

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