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Boom to bust
28 August 2023
Milton Keynes was once a magnet for ‘new economy’ businesses. During the past 40 years, the town has quadrupled in size, but the companies that fuelled the expansion are pulling out. Report by Tony Marshall.
Bidding up the risk
28 August 2023
An Edinburgh council bid to cut costs has brought chaos to its homelessness services and put children in danger, reports Tony Marshall.
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Red Tory or true blue?
17 August 2023
Barring a huge upset or an early election we will wake up on the morning of Friday June 4 to the first Conservative government in 13 years. But what kind of Conservatives will be in charge – and what will it mean for housing? Report by Julian Birch.
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Sold out
18 June 2023
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
Needle work
18 June 2023
Paul O’Hanlon on the destructive effect drugs have had on on his fellow hostel residents.
Love thy neighbour?
18 June 2023
Mixed tenure developments have been held up as a model for promoting social cohesion. But new research has found that residents are often unhappy about sharing their area with people in different types of housing tenure. Joanne Bretherton reports.
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Continental gift
18 June 2023
Experiences in Europe show that regulation and private renting are not mutually exclusive. Jan Jager reports from Holland and Germany on the lessons for the UK.
Escape to poverty
18 June 2023
Anne Scholl reports on the thousands of women and children who can’t return home and are living in destitution in the UK because their asylum claims have been rejected
Seconds out
18 June 2023
A new repossession crisis is happening beyond the reach of government help for homeowners and the scope of official repossession statistics. Tony Marshall reports on the menace of second charge loans
Now you see it…
18 June 2023
More than 40 years of specific funding to support homeless, vulnerable and isolated people is about to disappear into area-based grant. Will the money ever be seen again? ask Maurice Condie and Neal Penney
News from the front
06 May 2023
Paul O’Hanlon finds Robert Capa’s war photograhy reflected in hostel life.
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Mutual respect
06 May 2023
The collapse of the market highlights the need for a fresh approach to housing supply. Adrian Coles and David Rodgers argue that co-operatives and mutual organisations offer a way out of the crisis.
Yes we can
06 May 2023
On the eve of his departure from Shelter, chief executive Adam Sampson issues a warning on the prospects for boosting the supply of affordable homes. Tony Marshall reports.
Battleground Britain
06 May 2023
As government unveils its latest counter-terrorism strategy, Simon Ellery reports on how projects around the country are working with young Muslims to turn them away from extremism.
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War on waste
05 May 2023
From a rare Victorian concrete house to a 17th-century duke’s mansion, Paul Telling catalogues the London homes that have been left to fall into dereliction.
