Jackie Long
Rubbish tips and mice: one mum’s story of the private rental sector
Aggressive landlords and the fear of eviction: a new report shows how the private sector is increasingly being used by councils to house the vulnerable.
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Does the growing migrant population give more than it takes?
Immigration is rarely out of the headlines. With Ukip making it a key election issue, David Cameron has had to sit up and take notice. Here are the facts.
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FactCheck: can Cameron solve the housing crisis?
Everyone wants to build more houses but nothing has worked so far. Has David Cameron got the answer?
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FactCheck: is Boris’s London only for the rich?
Boris Johnson claims to have delivered record numbers of affordable homes. So why is housing still so expensive in London?
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FactCheck Scotland: has the Scottish government protected the NHS?
The Scottish government says it’s protected Scotland’s NHS from Tory cuts. FactCheck gives the yes campaign’s claims a check-up.
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FactCheck: are the super-rich killing ‘cool London’?
Are foreign investors really driving London’s house prices up and leaving the capital looking like a ghost town? FactCheck finds out.
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Jackie Long
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Affordable housing – has the PM scored a home run? FactCheck
David Cameron wants to talk about how well his government has done on affordable housing. Has he hit home this time? FactCheck pores over the numbers.
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Siobhan Kennedy
Bad advice in a bad situation: the young mum evicted despite paying her rent
25-year-old Gemma Jupe has two children, one just weeks old. But she’s being evicted despite paying her rent on time because she’s on housing benefit.
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How many council tenants earn more than £60,000?
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?
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Faisal Islam
Official: last year’s terrible housebuilding stats. Why?
A green field in Northern Hertfordshire – a beautiful rural scene straight out of EM Forster? Or would it be made more beautiful by thousands of smiling happy families in shiny new homes?
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FactCheck: Are builders causing the housing crisis?
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?
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Faisal Islam
2012/13: lowest year for official UK housebuilding since the 1920s
135,117 – the next time you hear a politician, any politician, talk about the cost of living, think about this number. Why? Because it marks the lowest point in UK house-building in nearly 100 years.
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Siobhan Kennedy
Why has help to buy 2 been rushed out the door?
A lot of people were surprised at David Cameron’s decision to bring forward the Help to Buy 2 scheme, least of all his Business Secretary Vince Cable. But will the results of this decision be more alarming?
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Faisal Islam
On Miliband: shaping dysfunctional markets is not socialism
It was quite some shock to hear a political leader announce a “freeze” in energy prices. But is it really a return to old-school socialism?
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Faisal Islam
Osborne’s skyscraper a totem of Britain’s new global export: houses
If some statistics that 75 per cent of London’s new build are bought abroad are true, then net housing stock available to ordinary Britons may well be going down not up.