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More than a million householders are using credit cards to stave off repossession and eviction. But the debt they run up can put their homes at greater risk – and the well-off are being hit for the first time. Tony Marshall reports.

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The fall-out from the sub-prime crisis is starting as homeowners irresponsibly sold loans they could never hope to pay back are being found intentionally homeless. Tom Marshall and Bill Rashleigh investigate

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Repossession claims have fallen since the introduction of a new mortgage pre-action protocol in November. But is it really helping homeowners in trouble? Tony Marshall finds worrying evidence that a failure to recognise the protocol could be making things worse, while Jeremy Kuper talks to homeowners at one London court.

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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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They were rescued from repossession only to face eviction. Tony Marshall talks to the new victims of the sale and rent back scandal

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Despite an apparently endless series of relaunches, shared ownership schemes are still failing the people they’re meant to help. Tony Marshall investigates

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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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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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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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