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We are deep in a housing crisis – why are so many properties still empty?
New data reveals councils are barely taking over empty homes anymore, amid calls for a new national programme to bring unused properties back into use.
 • Matty Edwards and The Lead
How Bristol put a lid on temporary accommodation costs amid homelessness crisis
Councils are piloting ways to tackle the cost of housing a record number of homeless families while we wait for a new strategy from the government.
 • The Lead and Matty Edwards
The housing ultimatum: Out-of-area placements are hurting London’s homeless families
Relocations from London have become increasingly far-flung as councils become more hard-line as pressure on housing wait lists continues to explode
 • Nutshell News
The social housing tenants left traumatised by decades of neglect
Bristol City Council is one of many local authorities with thousands of tenants in mouldy flats and a £2.2bn black hole in housing budgets is expected…
 • The Lead and Matty Edwards
The Lead UK in conversation: the shared ownership crisis
Listen now | Our Westminster Editor Zoe Grunewald speaks to housing journalist Hannah Fearn about her recent piece, Toxic Assets: Housing association…
 • Zoe Grunewald, The Lead, and Hannah Fearn
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'Cowboy operator' RMG in crosshairs as thousands left frustrated at service charges
Bury MP James Frith says property management company - owned by housing association Places For People - is 'riding roughshod' over those expecting a…
 • Kevin Gopal and The Lead
Toxic assets: Housing association homes and shared ownership
Leasehold concerns, sky-high service charges and strict sell-on rules. Inside the people becoming trapped from moving on and losing money after buying a…
 • Hannah Fearn
The government is moving in the right direction - but how can we all fight street homelessness?
As increased funding arrives to try and cope with a rapidly increasing homelessness crisis, CEO of Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity Fran…
Toxic assets: Housing association homes and shared ownership
Leasehold concerns, sky-high service charges and strict sell-on rules. Inside the people becoming trapped from moving on and losing money after buying a…
 • Hannah Fearn
Ignore the 'market mayhem', a lifeline for renters is being activated
As Westminster fixates on rising cost of government debt and political fallout surrounding Chancellor Rachel Reeves, renters across the country are…
 • Zoe Grunewald
The North is short of over 70,000 social housing units. Can Rayner fix it?
The sell-offs, the depleted stock, the greedy developers - and the tenants and councils already fighting back. We dive deep into the North's housing…
 • Kevin Gopal
Damp, decay and delay: the many fractures of the housing crisis
After over a decade of bad policy, perpetual underinvestment and a chronic lack of political will, Britain's social housing is on its knees. Are…
 • The Lead and Hannah Fearn
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