A third of the country could lose advice vital to preventing homelessness
New analysis by Justice for All reveals housing and debt advice, received under legal aid, will not be available at all in a third of areas in England and Wales.
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End of the road for Dale Farm?
Kevin Meagher reports on the apparent end of the Dale Farm saga and Basildon Council’s pyrrhic victory over the travellers.
We need a new kind of tenure for a new kind of housing market
David Rodgers explains why the co-operative housing (tenure) bill is so sorely needed to fix the UK housing market.
Cameron will lose England another million low rent homes
Pete Challis details how the right to buy demolished England’s housing stock.
Social housing needs a ‘New Deal’
Kevin Gulliver argues that the social housing system needs to be re-hauled under a ‘New Deal’.
Could earnings-based rent-control replace quantitative easing?
Peter Morgan argues that earnings-based rent-control would be better at increasing demand than quantitative easing, and will do so for less money as well.
Pickles’s failed attempt to reduce complexity risks a planning free-for-all
Under the guise of reducing complexity in the planning system, the government devolves crucial decisions to under-funded councils in a failed attempt at growth.
Housing will define the London Mayoral election
Livingstone’s housing record was a good one; Johnson’s is dreadful. The task for progressives is to convince Londoners they can vote for a better way next May.
Councils and Whitehall must work together to avoid a homelessness epidemic
Central and local government are going to have to have to work together and invest in housing if we are to avoid a homelessness epidemic, writes Anna Turley.
Why isn’t Boris coming up with any solutions to London’s housing crisis?
The Mayor needs to call on the government to radically reform tenure and taxation, to restore a housing budget that can deliver high quality homes and communities.