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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
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
Poison pill
01 November 2023
Beware firms claiming to offer a way out of repossession. They are not the panacea for struggling home owners, writes Tony Marshall
End of the line
01 November 2023
People struggling with the rent or mortgage are using high-cost credit cards to cover the gap, write Bill Rashleigh and Tony Marshall
Dreams deferred
01 July 2023
Simone Fergus has a message for ministers: ‘Your housing policies are stifling my potential.’
Diagnosis: market failure
02 May 2023
New research reveals a housing market seized up and dysfunctional. Julian Birch reports in ROOF’s annual Housing Market Healthcheck
Decade of discrimination
01 November 2023
The single room rent restriction is 10 years old this month. Simon Ellery investigates how a pernicious policy has blighted the lives of vulnerable young people and forced them into homelessness
Left in limbo
01 March 2024
The government has pledged to extend Britain’s ‘property-owning democracy’. But what happens to the families that get left behind? Will Wiles investigates
Up to the job?
01 January 2024
Peter Kemp looks at whether the new local housing allowance can solve the problems that bedevil the current housing benefit system
The red peril
01 January 2024
A new repossessions industry is emerging – fed by Britain’s burgeoning consumer debt and vulnerable homeowners, William Wiles reports
