Category: Homelessness

It was Britain’s most expensive house. Why is its only resident a homeless man who lives on the porch?

2-8A Rutland Gate had jewel-encrusted bathroom suites and gold wastepaper bins in its 45 rooms, but has lain empty for years. With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment of this palace tell us about...

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Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’

Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity saysIt would take more than a century to clear the social housing waiting lists in England at the...

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Rise in youth unemployment driving more to homelessness, UK charities say

Centrepoint warns young people facing ‘huge scarcity of work opportunities’ after Alan Milburn’s report on crisisThe growing number of young people not in work or education is driving more into unstable housing...

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UK politics: No 10 brushes off claims Streeting’s criticism of ‘technocratic approach’ refers to Starmer –as it happened

Health secretary admitted to being ‘frustrated’ with approach to governing in interviewSeema Malhotra, a Foreign Office minister, is responding to the urgent question about President Trump’s national security...

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Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live

Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendumFarage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failure of capitalism.Some will tell you, well, the economy is failing because...

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Some tenants can now force landlords to make their home liveable. What about the thousands who can’t? | Kwajo Tweneboa

Awaab’s law imposes new duties on those who own social housing. Millions who rent privately, or are in temporary accommodation, remain unprotectedWhen two-year-old Awaab Ishak tragically died in 2020 after prolonged...

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