Government announces ‘right to rent’ scheme despite opposition from charities
Homelessness charity Crisis says more people will become homeless as a result of the scheme
Homelessness charity Crisis says more people will become homeless as a result of the scheme
13,850 households were accepted as homeless between April and June of this year
Government statistics show that growing numbers of people are finding themselves homeless at the end of privately rented tenancies
Another report into the punitive sanctions system shows geographical variations in the number of jobseekers being cut off
Housing benefit cuts and sanctions are blamed for the sharp rise in people asking councils to help keep them off the streets
Cyprus is moving into unknown territory today, if not wholly by choice. The deal now agreed to close Laiki Bank and massively restructure the Bank of Cyprus will mean substantial losses for depositors with more then €100,000 in their accounts, but that’s just the beginning of the tale.
We examine whether a living wage and changes to council tax valuations would mitigate the worst effects of the housing crisis.
If we are to prevent the entirely avoidable Sahel famine crisis from killing thousands of people and once again staining our planet we must act. Now.
Ed Miliband will lay out his plans for a new era of responsibility at the top and outline his vision of “one nation banking” in a speech to Reuters today.
Debbie Hillier of Oxfam reports on the findings of a report into the response to the Horn Of Africa disaster, the east Africa food crisis drought.