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Published in: Home: NewsNew eviction laws could stop homeless people getting help, charities warn
Government ignored warnings that abolishing section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions could leave people ineligible for support
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Government to legalise ‘hazardous’ accommodation for asylum seekers
Housing and migrants charities blast ‘shameful’ plan to relax licensing rules around HMOs for people fleeing danger
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Published in: Home: FeatureThe Tories pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024. Will they?
Conservative MP says ministers have failed to grasp ‘crucial opportunity’ as street homelessness ticks up, not down
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Published in: Home: OpinionWe can't let landlords define the narrative on renting
OPINION: Thought landlords were selling up and making it even harder to rent? Think again
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Published in: Home: NewsTory MPs’ rent expenses soar as they inflict real-terms housing benefit cut
Exclusive: Tory MPs blamed rising rents for increased claims, while government imposed freeze on poorest tenants
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Published in: Home: NewsLandlords aren’t leaving the market in droves, admits Tory housing minister
Rachel Maclean said the narrative being pushed by some MPs and the property sector is ‘wrong’
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Published in: Home: NewsLandlords charge councils £1.25bn for temporary housing as homelessness rises
Soaring spend on temporary accommodation reflects chronic shortage of permanent social housing in Britain
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Landlords’ efforts to turn students against new renters’ rights
The National Residential Landlord Association is understood to have written more than 20 letters to SUs across the UK
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Published in: Home: NewsDelay in ‘no fault’ evictions ban leaves 48,000 households facing homelessness
The Tories pledged to end section 21 evictions in 2019. Tens of thousands have paid the price for their slow progress
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Published in: Home: FeatureI went to a landlords’ conference during a housing crisis. Here’s what I found
With a key tenants’ rights bill set to go before MPs, what is going through the minds of the UK’s property class?
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents
Representatives of housing associations including Clarion, Peabody, L&Q and Optivo met and wrote to ministers over the summer
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Published in: Home: FeatureDemolition or disrepair: the choice facing residents on one London estate
Hundreds in Custom House are being asked to vote on whether their homes should be knocked down. It’s a catch-22
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Published in: Home: NewsPrivate renters will face ‘winter of hardship’ after autumn statement
Campaigners had urged the government to cap private rents alongside social rents, which will be limited to a 7% rise
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Published in: Home: InvestigationExclusive: 2,300 people died while waiting for a council house last year
Investigation finds underhand tactics used by UK councils to cut wait lists as time runs out for thousands
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Published in: Home: FeatureHow Liz Truss made the UK’s rent crisis worse in just 44 days
Social and private tenants are bearing the brunt of the political chaos sparked by the UK’s shortest-serving PM
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Published in: Home: NewsLet local councils freeze rents in cost of living crisis, says Labour
Shadow housing secretary Lisa Nandy says she is ‘very interested’ in giving councils power to freeze private rents
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Published in: Home: NewsLegal ‘loopholes’ could block crackdown on oligarchs’ empty homes
Westminster Council has pledged to seize empty homes – but efforts could come to nothing without more help
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Published in: Home: NewsLandlords urged to ‘take advantage’ of soaring rents in ‘grotesque’ email
A London estate agent said now is ‘the perfect time to expand portfolios’ as tenants are in ‘fierce competition’