What Labour gets wrong about Right to Buy
The policy is a drain on council resources and a gift to the private rental market.
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The property rental market is a hellscape
In a landlord’s market, with intense competition from fellow renters, you’re damned whatever you do.
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The housing crisis is inescapable
It's one of the UK’s biggest policy problems, with knock-on effects on everything from productivity to pensions and the demographic…
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Nearly two thirds of social workers say children live in homes with “excessive levels of mould”
A survey from the Social Workers Union reveals the extent of poor housing conditions in the UK.
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The housing crisis outrage machine
The UK press has only one solution for the broken rental market: clickbait.
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Why Michael Gove’s planning reforms won’t deliver sustainable housing
The Housing Secretary’s new planning framework for England does little to encourage net zero development.
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Grenfell shocked us all, but the UK still doesn’t take fire safety seriously
The poor and disadvantaged are forced to live in unsafe or overcrowded housing – regulation needs to catch up.
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Leasehold is the ultimate symbol of our broken economic model
To challenge rentier capitalism, the next Labour government should end the great leasehold con.
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Where is all the affordable housing?
Thatcher’s government set a housing policy paradigm that no government since has been able to change.
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Housing benefits still won’t keep up with skyrocketing rents
Despite what Jeremy Hunt said in his Autumn Statement, reforms to the Local Housing Allowance don’t go anywhere near far…
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Why the next government must bolster mutuals
Diverse business models in the finance sector can help beat the housing crisis and fight fraud.
Mortgages are approaching a new cliff edge
Why Jeremy Hunt can’t stop the housing crash.
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The housing battle of Hastings
A perfect storm is engulfing the East Sussex seaside town – and dozens of other councils facing bankruptcy.
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The UK housing crash is just beginning
For the first time since 2007, the returns on a typical new buy-to-let property have entered negative territory.
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How housing associations can deliver the homes the UK needs
The chief executive of the UK’s largest housing association on how it’s delivering much-needed investment in the country’s housing stock.
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Here’s how to tackle Britain’s housing crisis
Without investment in social housing, waiting lists grow – as will the number of people trapped in hotels, hostels and…
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Those priced out of home ownership need champions in parliament
In the postwar era, both parties had housebuilding front and centre of their vision. It’s time for us to do…
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Murky waters: what comes next for nutrient neutrality?
Scrapping Natural England’s uncompromising regulations could be harder than the government thinks.
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Deano is Britain’s most misunderstood man
The left refuses to grapple with the realities of petty bourgeois life.
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Down with free market urbanism
London is more than an economic engine.
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