High rents to leave 6 million in poverty by 2040
Half of those who live in private rented homes will be living in poverty by 2040 if current trends continue.
housing
Boris’s affordable housing failure exposes his true colours – dishonesty and indifference
Hundreds of thousands of Londoners are being priced out of London’s housing market, yet Boris doesn’t seem to care.
The Lyons Review: Britain’s housing crisis – and how we solve it
Labour has published its plans on how it will deliver 200,000 homes a year in the UK.
The MIPIM property fair: everything that is wrong with regeneration in London
At a time when millions of Londoners need affordable housing, local authorities are knocking it down and replacing it with luxury flats.
Another Tory housing gimmick
Cameron’s housing announcement is his latest attempt to wear Mrs Thatcher’s clothes.
Labour must be more radical on housing
We need to strike out beyond the confines of housing policy orthodoxies accepted by all political parties since the late 1980s.
Private rents are soaring: is it time the state stepped in?
Market fundamentalists say to leave the market, it will fix itself – but that experiment has been tried and it has failed. We need more statecraft to fix the problem.
In a city as wealthy as London, no one should be sleeping rough
In a city as wealthy as London, no one should be sleeping rough.
London rents now double that of rest of UK
The cost of renting in London has soared in recent years.
Third of Londoners fear having to move due to housing costs
One in three Londoners fears having to move out of their local area because of the high cost of housing.