Wes Streeting: This country needs good quality social housing, now
Growing up in a council flat, I thought I was unlucky. Born and bred in Stepney, in London’s…
Housing
Melanie Onn: We must crack down on ‘sex for rent’ – and its causes
Sex for rent is illegal and we must crack down on those who blatantly break the law, but…
A rough sleeping map: visualising austerity across England
Following the release of Shelter’s report on homelessness last week, I’ve developed a tool to visualise publicly available…
Corbyn sets out social contract for veterans on Armistice Day
On Armistice Day, marking 100 years since the end of the first world war, Jeremy Corbyn has set…
John Healey: Leasehold misselling is a national scandal. We need an inquiry
What happens when you buy a home but feel like you still don’t own it? This is the…
Tom Copley: The Tories are ready to betray private renters
Yesterday we heard that the Treasury is set to quash the housing minister’s plans to introduce longer tenancies…
Melanie Onn: The Tories aren’t interested in helping private renters
It is anticipated that there will be five million people in the private rented sector by 2022, a…
Melanie Onn: Three housing policies I’d like the Tories to steal from Labour
The number of rough sleepers is a national disgrace. Rough sleeping has nearly trebled since the Conservatives took…
Helen Hayes: The latest Tory U-turn on housing is welcome – but two years late
The Tory and Liberal Democrat-led governments we have lived under since 2010 have been a complete disaster for…
Melanie Onn: Most homeless families are in work. This is a broken system
We now live in a country where more than half of the families who don’t have a home to…