We are now half way through the five year term of this coalition government's administration. During that time we've heard a lot of speeches and promises about how housing would be a priority. And it needs to be. As a result of decades of only building half the number of...

Can you afford your home? If you want to buy your own home can you afford to build the average deposit of £50,000? Are you confident about where your children will live or your parents as they get older?

If you can answer 'yes' to all these questions, you are...

Jack is a highly promising 14 year old amateur boxer from Middlesbrough. Sharon, at the age of 33, is a magistrate in Birmingham. Gwenton works in Hackney, helping to get young people out of gangs. On the face of it, they don't have much in common. They're very different people,...

Dear Mr Osborne,

After all the leaks and press speculation, I guess in the end there weren't many surprises in your budget. The headlines around the 50p tax rate have been interesting, although they don't mean much to most of the tenants of housing associations.

For those of us involved...

We've heard a lot about the Government's headline-grabbing benefits cap, which threatens to plunge 50,000 larger families into poverty. But a separate and lesser known plan to punish social tenants for 'under-occupying' their homes is just as unfair and will hit more than 10 times that number of low-income people.

We've heard a lot about the Government's headline-grabbing benefits cap, which threatens to plunge 50,000 larger families into poverty. But a separate and lesser known plan to punish social tenants for 'under-occupying' their homes is just as unfair and will hit more than 10 times that number of low-income people.