Features

Buy-to-let landlords face extra difficulties in the current economic climate. But with more than a million families housed in their properties, the risk of a big rise in the number of evictions is very real, reports Tony Marshall.

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By Patrick McAuslan

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With its ambitious goal of giving everyone the right to a home by 2012, Scotland is at the cutting edge of homelessness reform in Europe. Gavin Corbett assesses progress as the interim 2019 target looms

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Phil Frampton investigates the plight of asylum seeker children left homeless and destitute because they can’t prove they are under-18.

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Maff Potts, the Sally Army’s new director of homeless services, talks to Jeremy Kuper about the services’ revitalised role – and why he gave up a career in advertising

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There are 10 million disabled people in Britain – but not enough homes to allow them an independent life. Now some of them are taking the fight for housing into their own hands, reports Ian Cook

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Malcolm Jack reports from Zimbabwe on how local people are improving their living conditions despite continuing political uncertainty

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Travellers on a site in rural Essex are under seige from Basildon council, reports Jo Siedlecka

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Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Mark Stephens and Caroline Davey reflect on the purpose and role of social housing and the prospect of a new Green Paper on housing refom

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Regeneration has slashed crime rates and turned a former no-go zone into a thriving community

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Bad housing is one of the causes of crime – as the dividend from raising standards in some of the country’s most deprived neighbourhoods clearly demonstrates.

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Territoriality among young people in city neighbourhoods is a source of disadvantage and violence, says Keith Kintrea

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Growing numbers of women are sleeping rough, but women-only hostels may not be the best solution to their problems, reports Elizabeth Simpson.

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What started out as a crime prevention measure has caused a war between neighbours that is driving communities apart, reports Phil Frampton

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New research shows that private renters are at the sharp end of the affordability crisis, reports Liam Reynolds

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