The failure of governments to build enough social homes in the past 20 years is “shocking” and “uneconomical”, says the author of a landmark Blair-era…
View More UK failure to build social homes ‘shocking’, says author of 2004 reportTag: Communities
Outrage as residents in England’s ‘affordable’ housing forced to pay thousands of pounds extra in service charge
Some of the UK’s largest housing providers have dramatically increased annual service charges by thousands of pounds, plunging residents into financial crisis, an Observer investigation…
View More Outrage as residents in England’s ‘affordable’ housing forced to pay thousands of pounds extra in service chargeSunak and Gove accused of caving in to lobbying in favour of landlords
Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove have been accused of caving in to Tory MPs lobbying in favour of landlords’ interests after it emerged that significant…
View More Sunak and Gove accused of caving in to lobbying in favour of landlords‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet
A Gloucestershire restaurant is rethinking relationships with customers, suppliers and the entire food economy to fuel an ambitious “pay as you can” model that feeds…
View More ‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet‘It makes moving pointless’: why stamp duty is the biggest downside to downsizing
What’s standing in the way of downsizing for Gail, 58, from Manchester – who is self-employed and lives with her partner in a five-bed house…
View More ‘It makes moving pointless’: why stamp duty is the biggest downside to downsizingEngland’s green belt can’t stay entirely untouched for ever, building design tsar says
Not all of the green belt should be “preserved in aspic for ever”, the government’s building design tsar has said, as he warned that with…
View More England’s green belt can’t stay entirely untouched for ever, building design tsar saysEngland has ‘twice as many empty homes as families stuck in B&Bs’
England has more than twice as many long-term empty homes this Christmas as there are children living in temporary accommodation, the Liberal Democrats have said,…
View More England has ‘twice as many empty homes as families stuck in B&Bs’Illegal evictions in UK hit record high, but less than 1% of landlords convicted
Landlords are illegally evicting tenants in greater numbers and with almost no fear of repercussions, as figures show that less than 1% of those evictions…
View More Illegal evictions in UK hit record high, but less than 1% of landlords convicted‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises
Everybody I grew up with has moved out. They can’t afford to live here,” says Sallie Clarke, as she readies the offices of Home-Start Lambeth…
View More ‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises‘A joy to watch’: UK rewilding brings endangered species back from brink
Vast expanses of rolling hilltops may be easy on the eye. But look a bit closer and many are in fact bleak landscapes – overgrazed…
View More ‘A joy to watch’: UK rewilding brings endangered species back from brink