Housing benefit

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.

Landlord Fergus Wilson owns around 1,000 properties in Kent. He has served eviction notices on 200 families who depend on welfare to cover their rent. He explains why.

With private rents reaching a new high, a charity warns that families are being left trapped in the unstable and expensive rental market.

It is meant to be a last resort. But the number of homeless families in emergency B&B accommodation is at its highest level in 10 years, with some councils flouting the law to extend time limits.

The private sector is now driving over three-quarters of growth in purpose-built student digs. At the start of a new academic year, Channel 4 News asks what happened to old-fashioned halls.

Britain’s housing system offers only a broken ladder for first-time buyers. But is Labour’s promise to build 200,000 new homes a year by 2020 achievable?

Half of tenants hit by the so-called “bedroom tax” have been pushed into rent arrears just weeks after its introduction, according to the body representing housing associations.

The body of Henryk Piotrowski, who had been sleeping unnoticed in an industrial bin, was found at a Dublin recycling plant.

House prices are on the rise – usually the symptom of a an increasingly buoyant property market. But some economists are warning that you can have too much of a good thing.

Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps says the government’s new benefits cap means no-one will be better off on welfare than in work.

A cap on the amount of benefits people can receive on a weekly basis begins in London today amid a row over whether it will change behaviour.

MPs have expressed fears that the government’s huge welfare shake-up will leave the benefits system more vulnerable to fraud.

Iain Duncan Smith says he could live on £53 a week – but could he? Channel 4 News looks at the numbers and speaks to one woman who is struggling to cope on this amount of money.