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19 September 2024

  • AOC at the mic.

    AOC introduces legislation for low-cost housing programme backed by US funding

  • Angela Rayner in a hi-vis jacket accompanied by two men at a new housing estate

    New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade

15 September 2024

  • An aerial shot of partly built houses

    Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey

    Pro-building Labour group hopes study will spur on major planning reform and government drive to build 1.5m homes
  • A housing development in Felixstowe, East Suffolk.

    ‘The moment has come’: pro-building Labour yimbys are set to raise the roof

    Proponents of more homes, turbines and infrastructure – even on the green belt – prepare for rally at party conference
  • Head and shoulders photograph of Rachel Reeves gazing down to her right.

    The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold

    Ministers should stop wasting their time – and their hefty mandate – trying to make failed Tory policies work

13 September 2024

  • A view of the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower from Sadlers Wells East construction site in 2022.

    London’s Olympics have given the city a legacy to be proud of

    Letters: Lyn Garner says the Games resulted in an improved quality of life for local people, while Gavin Poole says the legacy of the Games is best seen in the expansion of education and culture. Plus letters from Greg Campbell and Brisbane resident Michele McEachern

12 September 2024

  • People look at properties displayed in the window of a real estate agent's office in London.

    Tell us: we want to hear from renters and landlords on Labour’s renters’ rights bill

    The plans include banning “no-fault” evictions and rental bidding wars
  • A protestor holds a placard reading 'Homes not profit'

    First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: How the long-awaited renters’ reform bill could transform housing as we know it

    In today’s newsletter: Labour’s new plans aim to solve people’s rental market woes once and for all. But what will change for the millions of people renting?
  • A construction worker on a roof.

    Low-carbon homes can save £1,341 in bills and should be compulsory, study shows

    UK government urged to change regulations so new homes incorporate solar panels, heat pump, high-grade insulation and battery storage

11 September 2024

  • Members of the London Renters Union protest outside the offices of Grainger plc, a UK private landlord company with over 10,000 properties

    Bill to ban landlords in England from rental bidding wars

  • Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak at PMQs

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Starmer accused of ‘hiding’ assessment of winter fuel payment cut on pensioners – as it happened

  • tents near a parking lot

    Ron DeSantis condemned over Florida’s ‘draconian’ new anti-homelessness law

  • Tom Darling

    Renting in England is like trying to buy Oasis tickets – Labour’s solutions only go so far

    Tom Darling

  • On the ground
    Better Together: Is communal living the answer to modern malaise? – video

  • Landlords warn they may raise rents in response to Labour’s renters’ rights bill

10 September 2024

  • Andy Burnham

    Manchester turns to ‘housing first’ scheme to eradicate rough sleeping

  • Geoffrey Lean

    Warning: countryside at risk. Ministers are pulling a fast one over the threat to pristine green-belt land

    Geoffrey Lean

9 September 2024

  • A builder assembles wooden roofing joists on a new home at a Barratt site

    UK government links with Barratt and Lloyds for £150m housebuilding project

    Homes England joint venture will help towards aim to build 1.5m new homes over next five years

8 September 2024

  • Natasha Elcock

    We the survivors and bereaved of Grenfell cannot sleep easy even now. Too many others are still at risk

    Natasha Elcock
    Change is happening too slowly. The contempt that killed our loved ones has killed before, and it will kill again says Natasha Elcock, chair of Grenfell United

7 September 2024

  • Student Naimh Reynolds

    Rats, mould, damp: UK’s biggest student homes provider faces legal action over poor accommodation

    A tenants’ rights group is fighting for justice for residents of university halls who claim health affected by conditions
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