Browsing: housing

Matthew Goldstein, a reporter for The New York Times who has focused on the financialization of the housing market, looks at a new executive order on…

Donald Trump has an interesting view of how housing plays in US politics. “I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing…

Housing where shops, schools, public transport and possibly pubs are close by, with green spaces and access to nature, and where heritage is preserved, should be…

My heart obviously breaks for distressed buy-to-let landlords (Are UK buy-to-let landlords dying out – and should we care?, 5 January) but, if some landlords are…

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to carry out purchases

Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) are often promoted as a quick money-making opportunity, but at least one in four in England are operating illegally, often leading…

The government’s renewed enthusiasm for building new towns may make for bold headlines, but it risks missing the people who need housing most. Even senior planners…

Hundreds of families in one of England’s poorest neighbourhoods will be evicted under a £90m plan described by critics as a “mass dispersion” of vulnerable people.Four…

In just four years, John Freeman has lived in about 30 different “exempt” accommodation properties in Birmingham, his stay in each place frequently breaking down without…

People are dying in unsafe accommodation and communities are being irreversibly damaged due to delays to a new law to clamp down on unregulated supported housing…