Helen Hayes: The u-turn on supported housing is a Labour victory over Tory chaos – but our fight goes on
Supported housing provides a vital lifeline for 700,000 people across Britain. It enables older people, disabled people and…
Homelessness
Neil Coyle: Universal credit chaos shows why Britain needs a “help to rent” project
For homeless people, or anyone on the brink of homelessness, life is a daily struggle and after years…
Owen Hatherley: Historic solutions to the modern housing problem
“Build More Bloody Houses”, goes the slogan; “Build More Bloody Council Houses”, goes the more leftist version. It’s…
May’s “British dream” simply shows she is sleeping through the housing crisis
In Theresa May’s address to the Conservative Party conference last week, the phrase “British Dream” cropped up a…
Andy Burnham: Let’s put philanthropy at the heart of the vision for our great cities
The rise and fall of Britain’s cities is intertwined with civic philanthropy. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester,…
Tory dogma fuelled rough sleeping from Mrs T to Cameron – but Labour can help
After seven years of Tory failure, a change of direction in housing provision is desperately needed. Last week…
Naushabah Khan: Rise in rough sleeping underlines human cost of austerity
A damming report published this week by the National Audit Office (NAO), the public spending watchdog, showed a…
Only Labour can effect the change needed to tackle the housing crisis
Since their ill-fated return to power as part of the coalition in 2010, the Conservatives’ attempts to tackle…
Only Labour can tackle the tragedy of addiction and homelessness on the streets of Manchester and other blighted cities
Surely there has never been a more damning indictment of a government than the spice-addicted living corpses currently…
Neil Coyle: There is nothing inevitable about homelessness so let’s work together to tackle this scourge on society
Homelessness can affect anyone – yet it is often not seen as a problem for many groups and…
