Labour’s slashing of proposed spending on home insulation will leave millions of people on low incomes in cold, damp homes and could prevent the UK…
View More Labour’s reduced home insulation plans ‘simply not enough’Tag: Housing
UK’s emissions fell slightly in 2022 but transport and homes still biggest emitters
Greenhouse gas emissions fell slightly in 2022, new government figures reveal, with homes and transport remaining the highest emitting sectors. The emissions for the territorial…
View More UK’s emissions fell slightly in 2022 but transport and homes still biggest emittersTenants with shared heat systems shocked to be ‘back-billed’ for hundreds
David* was shocked to get a letter from his energy supplier saying that not only were his heating costs increasing fivefold this winter, but he…
View More Tenants with shared heat systems shocked to be ‘back-billed’ for hundredsEngland’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’‘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‘They’ve attacked families with cordless drills’: the man taking on rogue landlords
Ben Reeve-Lewis has been a scourge of rogue landlords for more than three decades. The co-founder of Safer Renting, a housing law advocacy service made…
View More ‘They’ve attacked families with cordless drills’: the man taking on rogue landlordsLoophole adds to ‘shameful’ rental conditions in England, says housing chief
A loophole allowing landlords to rent out squalid homes is contributing to “shameful” conditions of the type seen nearly a century ago, the head of…
View More Loophole adds to ‘shameful’ rental conditions in England, says housing chiefFuel poverty in UK ‘hit one in four in social housing last winter’
One in four UK households living in social housing was forced to go without heating at times last winter to reduce the cost of record…
View More Fuel poverty in UK ‘hit one in four in social housing last winter’‘It takes a mental toll’: students in England priced out of university towns
Elena Dirik is studying politics and sociology in Bristol, the UK’s most expensive city in which to study after London, and has so far stayed…
View More ‘It takes a mental toll’: students in England priced out of university towns