Topic: Housing
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Evicted in 10 minutes: what I learned from a day in housing court
Behind on rent due to family illness, benefit changes and even wrongful imprisonment, families are hauled in front of a judge to plead for their homes
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Just 6% of homes approved in Labour’s first six months were for social rent
Data from 119 councils shows that half didn’t greenlight a single council house between July and December 2024 — as 1.3m households languish on waiting lists
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Right to rent: no plans to scrap discriminatory housing scheme, Lords told
Labour peer Ruth Lister had proposed axing the policy as part of the renters’ rights bill — but the government refused
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Right to rent: peers to discuss scrapping anti-immigrant housing policy
Tenants and landlords want the controversial duty binned. An amendment to the renters’ rights bill by Labour peer Ruth Lister could be the first step
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Iranian asylum seeker lay dead for up to four months while wearing ankle tag
Mehrab Omrani’s case sparks calls from cross-party MPs for government to review plan to expand use of ‘dispersal accommodation’ run by Clearsprings
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Coffee Afrik: the east London community group ‘rooted in joy, Islam and love’
Keeping unhoused people warm in winter, and supporting local women and young people, a grassroots organisation is bringing its own vision of community to the UK capital
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E-visa failures leave refugee to sleep rough as caseworker warns of Home Office chaos
Exclusive: Inaccessible accounts mean new refugees can’t get housing and services, and trying to fix errors is like navigating a ‘labyrinth’
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Bangladeshi and Pakistani families worst affected by poverty in UK
Joseph Rowntree Foundation also found the West Midlands is the only region where poverty rates have risen since the mid-1990s
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‘Maybe my mum’s hoarding was her craving a sense of home’
Our attachments to physical possessions are complex, multilayered and often linked to life experiences — especially within immigrant communities
