Labour calls for extension of evictions ban as 250,000 face homelessness
Labour has called on the government to extend the evictions ban and warned that nearly a quarter of…
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This proposed planning overhaul is another Tory assault on affordable housing
The government has just launched a white paper with planning proposals for what the Prime Minister has described…
Government has just days left to avoid “homelessness emergency”, says Labour
The Labour Party is warning that the government has just days left to introduce legislation that would prevent…
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…
Shelly Asquith’s TU-esday round-up: Worker wins at Cammell Laird, Shelter and for Yorkshire dinner ladies
Some good news. If you hadn’t already heard, the six-week strike involving hundreds of workers at Cammell Laird…
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…
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: 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…
Andy Slaughter: Legal changes alone will not cure the epidemic of homelessness
The cross-party homelessness reduction bill, which is due to come back to the house of commons for report…
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