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The "volatile" rental market is putting children's education and general wellbeing at risk, a housing charity has warned. Shelter called for more l...
There's no feeling like owning your own home - a retreat from the rest of the world, a safe haven, a place where you can fully express yourself. Does that feeling of satisfaction double when you have two or three properties?
Eight million people are estimated to be just one month's salary away from struggling to pay for their home, a charity has warned. Some 35% of work...
With home ownership fast becoming a distant dream for many young people entering the workplace, what I envisioned my life to be in my twenties is not what it turned out to be. Now at the age of 33, I find myself thinking of dishes, and how many I would need to wash in order to keep up with the rent on my in South London flat.
More than five million families with children cut back on food last year as they struggled to stay in their homes, a charity has said. Some 42% of ...
Boris Johnson announced that £1bn will be pumped into Croydon on Thursday, in a redevelopment plan that will see a new Westfield set up in the South ...
Around 7.8 million Britons are struggling to keep up with their rent or mortgage payments, showing a sharp increase on a year ago, a charity has warne...
The number of homeless families living in bed and breakfast style accommodation has risen by more than 50% in the last year, according to government f...
George Osborne is set to drop his controversial plans to end housing benefit for the under 25s after a Lib Dem revolt, reports the Guardian. The pl...
A blanket ban on support for young adults would leave thousands at risk of homelessness - while any truly compassionate list of exemptions would be so broad as to make the policy redundant. Ministers should ditch this unworkable proposal now.
We desperately need housing to be a national priority to deliver a huge increase in new homes. Our continued failure to tackle this problem head on hits millions of families hard, denies people the opportunity to buy their own home, traps increasing numbers of working people in benefit dependency at huge cost to the public purse and acts as a real brake on economic growth.
Buy something you can add value to. Don't go for your dream home first time. It almost certainly ain't gonna happen. Don't be put off by grubbiness. If it needs work, good, if it needs a lot of work, even better - you can really increase value.
George Osborne has been accused of targeting the poor and young families after he announced a government plan to cut an extra £10bn from the benefits...
Over the last few months the government has begun to take notice of some home truths. We simply don't have enough houses to meet demand; an ailing construction sector is holding back economic growth; and the growing number of private renting families remain stuck in expensive, unstable housing.
Cutting back on benefits won't solve the underlying problem: the exorbitant cost of housing. If the government wants to be truly radical, it must turn its attention to the housing market.
Hundreds of thousands of young people could be stripped of housing benefit and forced to live with their parents as part of a new welfare crackdown si...
Strong competition among tenants has caused rents to rise for the second month in a row, a study said on Friday. The average rent rose by 0.4% in M...
The biggest shame is not that Boris Johnson seems to have notched up the first broken promise of his second term, but that he is going to continue to fail millions of Londoners living in the private rented sector.
A coalition of leading housing groups have launched an unprecedented attack on the government for "falling well short" of tackling Britain's homes cri...
The number of homeless Britons rose by a "shocking" 14% in 2011, according to figures released by the Department of Communities and Local Government ...
Nearly two million Londoners could be driven out of their homes and out of the capital by the cost of housing, according to research from housing char...
When you think of a 'homeless person' what do you think of? A set of photographs by Claire Wood seeks to reclaim the experience of the homeless wit...
More than a third of people have cut back on their food spending in the last year to help cover their rent or mortgage costs, showing the "tough" choi...
Nearly seven million Britons are risking a "spiral of debt" through using credit cards, overdrafts and payday loans to pay off their rent or mortgage,...
People dismiss 'begging' as immoral but who would sit on the freezing pavement to be ignored all day if they did not have too? Who would live in the cold or in a hostel if they could have a home instead?
