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Remembrance day

01 January 2024

Rachael Claye reports from the annual service of commemoration at St Martin-in-the-Fields for all the people who died on the streets of London in 2018

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Feeling the chill

01 January 2024

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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Follow the leader

01 January 2024

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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The big squeeze

12 May 2023

House prices falling, mortgages disappearing, repossessions rising. Are the walls closing in? ROOF’s Housing Market Healthcheck investigates. Report by Julian Birch

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Panel beating

01 March 2024

In 2015, Croydon council launched the country’s first housing panel specifically for disabled tenants. Three years on, Ian Cook visits the London borough to find out what difference it has made to the lives of disabled residents

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Do-it-yourself

01 March 2024

Tony Marshall reports on a project where empty homes are being brought back into use for homeless people, by homeless people

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Off the drugs, but back on the streets

01 March 2024

Pumping money into drug treatment is a waste if the person you’re trying to help has no home to go to, says Tony Marshall

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Rental revival

01 January 2024

It is now cheaper to rent than it is to buy an equivalent sized property in all parts of the country. Steve Wilcox reports on the resurgence of private renting

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View from the bottom

01 January 2024

A lack of decent and affordable private rented housing is pushing many tenants into slum accommodation, writes Julie Rugg

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Taking the strain

01 January 2024

With buy-to-let landlords feeling the pinch of high mortgage rates, tenants are being left in an increasingly precarious position, reports Tony Marshall

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Conference call

01 January 2024

30 years since the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977, ROOF reflects on the past and looks at a way forward for homelessness policy

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Life in the loophole

01 January 2024

Tenants in large blocks of flats are left to live in squalor as landlords, freeholders and managing agents are unable, or unwilling, to take action. By Liz Simpson

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Going for gold?

01 January 2024

Institutional investors are being lined up to finance the Olympic village and its transformation into homes. So who will be the winner? By Tony Marshall

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Bad medicine?

01 November 2023

A company offering medical reports is enabling local authorities to reject homeless applications, writes Tony Marshall

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