Housing
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which commissioned report, urges government to monitor situation amid Brexit fallout
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Letters: David Cameron commissioned Louise Casey to produce this stilted review which posits the problem of ‘integration’ at the feet of Muslim communities
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A billion-dollar beanpole, a social housing revolution, a powerful memorial in Norway and the Tate’s wondrous watchtower … our critic picks his 2016 architecture highlights
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The leader of a remarkable yet much-derided east London borough has his own, distinctive ideas about social progress and change
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The Observer’s incisive journalism provides powerful reasons for revisiting the Brexit decision
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The tech company, long criticized displacing low-income residents in Silicon Valley, will partner with advocacy groups to amid massive campus expansion
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Daisy-May Hudson’s documentary about her family’s journey into the depersonalising trauma of the rehousing system has the quiet desperation of I, Daniel Blake
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Charities, outreach workers and the council all view ‘frightening’ levels of rough sleeping as a result of local authority cuts
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My film Half Way documents my family’s experiences when we were made homeless. I hope it goes some way towards changing the way we look at housing
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Report reveals landlords are forming limited companies or planning to hike rents to negate new tax rates as average UK rent hits record £881 per month
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However you cut the numbers, the capital’s struggle to house its vulnerable people is getting harder
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Housing minister Gavin Barwell is to split the Homes and Community Agency in two. Millions of pounds have been spent bringing us back to square one
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The squatters say they wanted to shine a light on Britain’s homelessness crisis, and will all be homeless tonight following the eviction
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Charity marks 50th anniversary by revealing homelessness hotspots including Birmingham, Bristol, Luton and Slough
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Housing stock is growing, office conversions are increasingly popular, but new social housing completions are much less healthy
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Personal finance tuition helps save young adults who have been in care from falling into debt
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If homeless people can only get care at A&E, it’s no surprise they keep going back. One housing trust has created an alternative
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Two new housing policy documents bring the mayor’s approach and its contrasts with his predecessor’s into sharper focus
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From London to Lagos, cities across the world are reacting to the rise in begging with a variety of often controversial measures. But what is the right response to this complicated human story – from cities and residents alike?
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Creating a comprehensive housing strategy will need to include special treatment for London, more devolved housing control, and land reform
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Sajid Javid pledges to ‘do more’ as Guardian campaign reveals that some buyers of new-build homes face ground rents which double every 10 years
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Sadiq Khan’s decision appears to cast doubt on election vow that 50% of new housing in capital would be ‘genuinely affordable’
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I feel a twinge of guilt owning numerous homes, but it’s been my life’s work. My love of period properties offsets the never-ending daily drudgeries
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To address prohibitive costs of attendance, the Manhattan university is piloting a scheme helping students save money by lodging in elderly people’s homes
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After detective work by Shelter, the subjects recall the poverty they endured
The rent gap: what is the local housing allowance?