Search results for ‘housing’
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Labour pledge £75bn housing plan as they launch manifesto
At the launch in Birmingham, Jeremy Corbyn said he was on the side of the people, taking on the bankers, billionaires and the establishment.
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Severe housing shortage in England’s most deprived area
Jaywick has become a byword for deprivation, suffering the stigma of topping the government’s list of the most deprived areas in the country three times now.
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‘We need to invest a lot more’, says Conservative MP on lack of affordable housing
We’re joined now from Westminster by the Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake, who’s on the Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.
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Revealed: Families on housing benefit can’t afford to rent 9 in 10 homes in England
Families on housing benefit can’t afford 9 out of 10 privately rented homes in England – pushing many into homelessness.
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Domestic abuse survivors ‘denied safe housing’
Some 2,000 domestic abuse survivors every year are at risk of homelessness or having to live with their abuser because they are not considered a priority by councils, according to an investigation by the charity Crisis and a parliamentary group.
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Housing Secretary James Brokenshire on Brexit: ‘I’m advocating that we have a negotiated deal’
We spoke to the Secretary of State for Housing, James Brokenshire, and asked if Theresa May’s exit speech brought a tear to his eye.
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Ed Miliband: building more social housing ‘requires political will and a change in attitude’
We speak to two of the commissioners who contributed to Shelter’s cross-party report on social housing, Conservative peer Baroness Warsi and ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband, along with Kimberley Aldridge, a married, working mum.
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Grenfell housing boss says firm did not have resources to deal with the fire
The former chief executive of the firm which ran Grenfell Tower has claimed it had no role in emergency planning when the fire broke out.
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FactCheck: Jeremy Corbyn’s housing claims
The Labour leader suggested the government had announced a cut in housing funding.
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Polly Neate, Shelter: ‘May’s words and tone on social housing mark significant change’
Natalie Elphicke, chief executive of the Housing and Finance Institute, and Polly Neate, the CEO of Shelter, discuss Theresa May’s £2bn social housing pledge.
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May pledges £2bn for social housing
Theresa May has called for the end of what she said was the “stigma” of social housing.
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Tenants on housing benefits turned away by letting agents
Tenants on housing benefits are being turned away by letting agents, according to an undercover investigation, which has found six letting agents have refused to let properties to people on benefits, even if they could afford the rent. Shelter and the National Housing Federation investigated 149 branches around the country, calling out major letting chains for…
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Joe Beswick, New Economics Foundation: Government ‘massively over-egged rhetoric’ on social housing
Campaigner Melvyn Akins and Joe Beswick, from the New Economics Foundation, discuss the government’s social housing plans.
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More than a million families in England stuck on waiting lists for social housing
Over a million families in England were stuck on waiting lists for social housing last year and a quarter of those have been waiting for more than five years. The government says it IS tackling the problem, committing 9 billion pounds to build more affordable homes. But the housing charity Shelter, which compiled the figures,…
