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Policy

May 2018

  • Washing outside flats

    The hostile environment: what social landlords need to know

    John Perry
    There have been reports of people being told they are not eligible for social housing - it’s essential that staff know the rules

November 2017

  • Austerity Measures Have Forced Birmingham Council To Cut Services For The Most Vulnerable<br>BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: A homeless man begs on the streets of Birmingham as austerity measures lead to the city council to cut services for vulnerable people on December 13, 2016 in Birmingham, England. Austerity measures have led to a quadrupling of people sleeping on the streets as prevention services have seen their budgets cut. The chief executive of Birmingham city council, Mark Rogers, said Tory cuts had wrecked provision for many of the most vulnerable in the city. Departments including youth, children's and care for the elderly have been hit. The city's advice centres have also been reduced from 40 in 2010 to four. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

    Councils are sitting on a wealth of assets. Why not use them for public housing?

    Dag Detter
  • Homeless people in London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 16: A homeless person sleeps in London, United Kingdom on May 16, 2017. (Photo by Kate Green/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

    To get people off the streets, Philip Hammond, help homeless people rent

    Jon Sparkes
  • A volunteer at the food bank at Ibrox Parish Church, Glasgow

    A mother given 50p a week for housing: the benefit cap one year on

    Melanie Rees
  • Jo Stoakes, WHO MUST REMAIN ANONYMOUS in her room in a hostel for the homeless, Camden

    Rising homelessness is a direct result of toxic government cuts

    Polly Neate

October 2017

  • Mayoral visit to Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School<br>Newly elected Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, meets pupils at Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School in the City of London, where he helped the children plant seeds and flowers on their green roof garden after seeing an air pollution monitoring station in the playground. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday May 13, 2016. Mr Khan has promised to clean up London’s toxic air - as he revealed he has only recently started suffering from asthma. See PA story POLITICS Khan. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Sadiq Khan: London needs to build 66,000 new homes a year, up from 29,000

  • Theresa May speaking during prime minister’s questions

    Theresa May performs major U-turn on plans to cap housing benefit

  • A high rise block of flats originally built for council tenants stand on a housing estate on October 4, 2017 in Bristol, England.

    UK housing crisis is hitting older people too, not just the young

    Claudia Wood
  • Rabina Khan

    The private sector has failed. Only councils can be trusted to build the homes we need

    Rabina Khan

  • The housing crisis will only get worse until England scraps right to buy

    Jonathan Manns

  • It's time to address the racial injustice in Britain's social housing

    Cym D'Souza

  • Want to build more homes, Theresa May? Then stop selling off public land

    Alice Martin

September 2017

  • Dawn Foster

    Foster on Friday
    Jeremy Corbyn's bold pledges will halt social cleansing of estates

    Dawn Foster
  • Homeless person near Westminster Cathedral

    Hidden homeless
    A fifth of young people are homeless - you just can't see them

    Paul Noblet
  • An outside corridor of flats in a high-rise building on the Falinge Estate in the UK

    Universal credit is a social policy disaster in the making

    Priya Thethi
  • The Sutton estate, Chelsea. Photograph: Graham Turner

    Why are housing association flats lying empty when Grenfell survivors need them?

  • Social housing crisis can no longer be ignored, says housing chief

  • Revealed: universal credit sends rent arrears soaring

  • Homelessness is not inevitable. It's a political choice made by the UK government

    Melanie Onn

  • Ministers have lost their grip on rising homelessness, says damning report

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