Almost 1m UK households are hooked up to heat networks. None had protection from poor service or price hikes … until last month‘If I could move, I would – to a place without a heat network. But I can’t...
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Read MoreThe number of rental properties without a lounge is surging, and people are having to eat and socialise in kitchens, bedrooms and stairwells. How can you relax and build community without a communal area?‘Without a living...
Read MoreIt is often assumed that people of retirement age will no longer have housing costs to cover. But for a significant and growing group, this is far from the caseNow that she is retired, Deborah Herring’s days are hers to...
Read MoreA few weeks before she delivers budget, timing of revelation chancellor failed to buy rental licence could not be worseUK politics live – latest updatesLess than a month before she is due to deliver the budget, Rachel...
Read MorePressure mounts on chancellor over ‘inadvertent’ mistake in renting out London home, despite PM saying apology sufficientUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street has refused to say whether Keir...
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Read MoreAwaab’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...
Read MoreNew legal duties follow case of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, who died after exposure to mould in his homeThe first phase of Awaab’s law, which promises to protect tenants from dangerous social housing conditions, comes into...
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