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Social housing

June 2024

  • Firefighters taking a rest while working on the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.

    Disabled high-rise residents ‘still at risk’ seven years after Grenfell fire

  • A street lined with houses in Leeds

    Social rent homes in England fall by more than quarter of a million in decade

  • Peter Apps

    The Tories’ hidden legacies
    When I look back on 14 years of Tory rule, there is one awful housing policy that stands out

    Peter Apps
  • Fire and Rescue personnel work at the scene after the explosion of a townhouse in Whalan, in Sydney's west, on Sunday

    Two broken gas meters in seven months before deadly Sydney house explosion at Whalan

May 2024

  • Social housing

    Inequality reporting
    Public housing regularly being offered to people on NSW waitlist who have died

  • Residents in a London block owned by the housing association Notting Hill Genesis claim that successions of guests arriving at one illegal sublet cause regular disturbances.

    Airbnb and Booking.com allowing illegal social housing sublets, say English councils

  • New homes under construction. Partially build new homes with scaffolding outside.

    Labour will aim to reveal new town sites within first year in power

  • 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

  • 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

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

    John Harris

  • I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties

    Andy Burnham

  • ‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who took on the housing crisis – and won

April 2024

  • apartment buildings

    Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?

  • Patrick Barry, 77, stands with a campaigner in front of a block of low-rise flats; there are banners on the steps and first-floor concrete walkways with messages including Retrofit Don't Demolish and Housing Rebellion

    Housing activists urge London mayor to save Clockwork Orange estate

  • An advertising board for L&Q with the slogan 'creating places where people want to live'

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    L&Q’s house exchange scheme turned our lives into a nightmare

  • Nathan Stafford holds a whipper snipper in an overgrown garden

    ‘I’m just a lawnmower man, I’m no one special’: Nathan Stafford, the Sydney gardener with a following of millions

  • Bed bugs and cockroaches: the legal battle over conditions in a Melbourne community housing block

  • Why Prague's homeless are resorting to poverty tourism – video

  • ‘Rat bites and chronic asthma’: schools on frontline of UK housing crisis

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