Guest writers

Architects are looking to house people in some of the planet’s most inhospitable regions. Ruth Slavid’s new book sets out the most challenging examples of how to house a growing population

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Paul O’Hanlon finds Robert Capa’s war photograhy reflected in hostel life.

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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.

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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.

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Andy Solomon-Osborne reports on the growing number of homeless people seeking refuge on night buses

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Sir Paul McCartney on what home means to him

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Patrick Quinlan craved quiet after growing up in the hustle of an overcrowded New York house

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A Stockholm suburb is the model for Gordon Brown’s eco-towns. But will he dare follow Sweden’s anti-speculation housing policy, asks Stephen Hill

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In the past it was those with the money and the land who dictated political reality in the UK, says Kevin Cahill. But what happens now the masses have a stake in the country’s most valuable asset?

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Ann Widdecombe recalls a childhood of colonial luxury in Singapore. And slumming it in a dingy bedsit as a young Tory candidate

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