Prime Minister David Cameron unveils a 20 per cent discount for first-time buyers – but will the move still freeze most people out of the housing market?
Mortgage applicants face tougher checks as lenders delve more deeply into people’s personal lives, from their plans for parenthood to how they will spend their old age.
As new Trussell Trust figures show that food banks fed almost 1m people last year, Epsom and Ewell food bank manager Jonathan Lees writes from the front line.
The lowest rung of the housing ladder is getting ever further out of reach for the average first-time buyer, surveyors warn.
Cathy Newman
The government is considering making it easier for landlords to evict bad tenants, saving months of legal delays and costs for landlords, Channel 4 News can reveal. But tenants fear any change.
New figures show there are now more tenants in the private rented sector than the social rented sector in England, but the number of owner-occupiers was at its lowest for a decade.
The court of appeal upholds the legality of government cutbacks in the benefits system, as judges reject accusations that the so-called “bedroom tax” unlawfully discriminates against the disabled.
With weekly rents soaring to more than half of average local wages in most of London, a generation of young renters has been left asking: “Where can I afford to live?”
If you are part of the army of people condemning Benefits Street without watching it, here are 10 things that you missed and four million people saw.
With more and more people in the UK renting property, Channel 4 News asks if rental laws should be changed to protect tenants from being evicted.
The chancellor wants to crack down on high earners who continue to live in council houses. Is this a real problem? And what is the government going to do about it?
Benefits Street, a Channel 4 show looking at the lives of benefits claimants in Birmingham, triggers police investigations, a flood of complaints and a row over whether the participants were tricked.
A Kent landlord has hit the headlines for his plan to evict tenants on housing benefits. As rents keep rising and demand for property grows, Channel 4 News looks at what rights, if any, tenants have.
Ed Miliband wants to force developers to build on land where planning permission has been granted. Are the big housebuilders really behind Britain’s housing crisis?
What bright ideas would light up the UK economy for you? George Osborne has set out his plan for economic recovery, but Channel 4 News wanted to find out what people on the street would like to see.