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The Shared Accommodation Rate is prolonging homelessness
Fraser Maclean, Policy and Communications Manager at Commonweal Housing, writes on the SAR's impact on single people experiencing homelessness.
Social housing needs the Streeting treatment
Andy Bates looks into the need to focus social housing to empower and put tenants first in the model of Wes Streeting's NHS reforms, drawing from one of Streeting's …
How the New Zealand retirement village model might work for the UK
John Collyns, former Executive Director of New Zealand’s Retirement Villages Association writes about the success of Retirement Villages in New Zealand and what the UK could learn from their …
Will the Renters’ Rights Bill transform the Private Rented Sector?
Ahead of the Renters' Rights Bill's Third Reading on 14th January, Jacky Peacock lays out the changes it will introduce and the need for firm enforcement through the database …
Is there hope for housing in the Lib Dems?
The Liberal Democrats certainly have a great deal of policy detail when it comes to housing, but their actions bely the behaviours of a protest party.
Confessions of a baby boomer: How my generation contributed to our failing housing economy
Dave Treanor writes on how public policy over his generation has led to increased land and house prices
The Government has a plan to build 1.5m homes – but what is the plan to heat them?
Pablo John writes on the need for the Government's housing ambition to be extended to decarbonising home heating.
Kemi Badenoch’s shift right bodes ill for housing
Since the election, Badenoch has already shifted the Conservatives right on renters’ rights, housing delivery and migration, returning to the party to its days of more divisive rhetoric.