Features

With mortgage lending down to levels last seen in the 1970s, ROOF’s housing market healthcheck analyses the latest boom and bust. Report by Julian Birch.

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Can he fix it? Yes he can… and in less than two years, Robert Napier, incoming chair of the new Homes and Community Agency, tells Tony Marshall

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A multi-billion pound development programme offers housing associations the chance to consolidate their position as the country’s leading social housing provider - but the risks to expansion leave no room for complacency, argues Sebastian Taylor.

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Far more homeowners are struggling to stave off repossession than lenders admit. Tony Marshall reports

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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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The cost of housing will deny young people the chance of normal family life, says John Bone

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A new repossessions industry is emerging – fed by Britain’s burgeoning consumer debt and vulnerable homeowners, William Wiles reports

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Early results are encouraging from the areas piloting the local housing allowance, says Robina Rafferty. But there are still major obstacles to overcome if the new flat-rate form of housing benefit for private tenants is to be introduced nationwide

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Professor Mark Stephens launches a new ideas-driven section of ROOF by reflecting on English housing policy since 1975. He finds some individual success stories, combined with a collapse in strategic policy-making

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The children of people who were homeless when ROOF started back in 1975 are having housing problems of their own. Bill Rashleigh investigates

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