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Renting property

June 2024

  • Shoulders and head of Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay

    Greens hope to win renters’ votes with housing commitments in election manifesto

    Party’s housing pledges include introducing rent controls and ending right to buy system for social properties
  • Ruby Lott-Lavigna

    Why were we evicted? I had to ask the new tenant to find out – and the reason cuts to the heart of the UK’s housing crisis

    Ruby Lott-Lavigna
    The Tories have betrayed renters, and Labour’s plans don’t go far enough. Here’s how they can fix our broken housing system, says Ruby Lott-Lavigna, reporter at openDemocracy
    • Social rent homes in England fall by more than quarter of a million in decade

    • Vistry sells 1,750 homes to Blackstone and Regis in £580m deal

    • From temporary wallpaper to injections of colour: giving a rented home a makeover

May 2024

  • Abstract graphic of people joining hands in front of their homes.

    Unions help US workers. Could the same model work for tenants?

  • Felipe Keilis-Carrasco, a musician from Argentina, outside his caravan

    ‘It’s totally broken down’: tourism surge forcing Ibiza’s workers to live in car parks

  • Penny Mordaunt, leader of the Commons

    Lost laws: which legislation will slip through the net before the UK election?

  • Poverty in Notting Hill Gate, London, in 1967, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972).

    The Notting Hill slums where I grew up were replaced by social housing – but right to buy wrecked it

  • Bailiff evictions of renting households at six-year high, says MoJ

  • Landlords selling up leaving 2,000 households a month in England facing homelessness

  • Far too many Britons are at the mercy of exploitative private landlords. I have a five-point plan to fix that

    Stephen Cowan
  • Labour should commit to a public housing ministry in its manifesto

  • Charging your children rent doesn’t add up

  • Observer business profile
    ‘It will take two decades to fix the housing crisis’: The developer reshaping south London

  • Cap rent rises in England and Wales, Labour-commissioned report says

  • Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon

    John Harris
  • Michael Gove admits ‘regret’ over rise in children in temporary housing

  • Charge your adult children rent – you’re doing them a favour

  • My two adult kids have had to move back home. Should I be charging them rent – and if so, how much?

    Sue Elliott-Nicholls
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