Browsing: housing

The stats are stark: families on Bath and North East Somerset council’s social housing list face a 200-year wait for a four-bedroom property and the latest…

Downing Street has defended the prospect of paying more to house asylum seekers in disused barracks instead of hotels, arguing that quelling public disquiet was worth…

Teekall and his wife are raising a family in Peckham, south London. He runs a successful business as a commercial designer with a studio just down…

The first phase of Awaab’s law, which promises to protect tenants from dangerous social housing conditions, comes into force in England on Monday, in memory of…

More than 172,000 children were living in temporary accommodation in England at the end of June, according to new quarterly official figures released last week.That represented…

Commons inquiry into Prince Andrew’s rent-free housing gets closer as public accounts committee requests details of leaseYesterday Keir Starmer told MPs that he favoured a parliamentary…

Children zoom down a tunnel slide, as their parents watch on, sipping coffees and chatting amicably on the long benches in the middle of the courtyard.They…

John Harris’s article on poverty and housing in the UK’s hinterlands is both moving and a vital element of the combined analytical framework that describes the…

The leaked memo circulated in the housing ministry confirms our worst fears: this Labour government is abandoning its promises on affordable housing (A leaked memo, a…

Here is the dream, if you can afford it: gleaming apartments, close to Liverpool’s waterfront, complete with penthouse swimming pools with views of the north Wales…