The Research Brief: the private rental sector is extortionate
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Landlordism is killing culture
Music venues, pubs and cinemas are struggling to survive under rentier capitalism.
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Down with free market urbanism
London is more than an economic engine.
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The Policy Ask with Polly Neate: “If people aren’t angry with me, I’m not doing my job properly”
The chief executive of Shelter on dealing with abuse from men’s rights activists, the Grenfell tragedy and how to solve…
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Should landlords be able to give two weeks’ notice?
Who defines whether a tenant is guilty of antisocial behaviour?
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MPs call for 90,000 more social homes every year and a new housing court
The Levelling Up Committee has said the government needs to step up its plans to protect renters and punish rogue…
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Housebuilding is far below the Conservatives’ manifesto target
The Tories pledged to build 300,000 homes every year but just 204,530 were built in the most recent period.
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Do MPs simply not realise that renters exist?
The Lib Dems want to help people struggling to pay their mortgages. What about those who can’t pay their rents?
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Scotland’s rent freeze
The responsiveness of the country's proportional electoral system to left-wing pressure is in sharp contrast with English conservatism.
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The Policy Ask with Clare Moriarty: “Renters have fewer options for lowering energy bills”
The CEO of Citizens Advice on her time as permanent secretary of Defra, the cost-of-living crisis, and William Beveridge.
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This will be the tenth time I have moved in my adult life
It seems I can’t keep pace with “the market” and so I must up sticks and go.
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Don’t mess with mortgages – just build more houses
Boris Johnson's speech today added another item to the long list of policies that have done nothing to address the…
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It’s time for renters to rise up
If the government won’t help us to buy, let’s take on landlords together.
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Forget Right to Buy, what about Right to Rent? The UK’s rent crisis is a political choice
An ideological devotion to home ownership has created a situation in which the most vulnerable consumers are the most exposed…
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“I can save, travel, go on trips with friends”: Inside the new affordable rental homes for young people
A 33-home project is fighting housing inequality as tenants question Kirstie Allsopp’s “boomer mathematics”.
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The pandemic has shown why landlords must now allow renters to have pets
I am repeatedly awed by the healing power of pets – everyone deserves the chance to own one.
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