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A new partnership being launched today aims to see if the private rented sector can contribute to ending homelessness. It takes the...

A charity leader claims spiralling rents are forcing children into what he calls “damp and mouldy B&Bs”. Matt Downie, chief executive of...

The Law Society claims over 29,000 eviction claims in recent months leave “tens of thousands at risk of losing their homes.” The...

Some 8,000 people were forced to sleep rough for the first time in London last year, an increase of 25% on...

A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...

A Labour MP is calling for rent controls to be introduced, with powers for councils to tweak them as they see...

Campaigning charity Shelter is demanding an overhaul of the Renters Reform Bill, which will shortly begin its passage through the House...

Five Labour MPs have put forward an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for rent controls - even...

England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...

An umbrella group called London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep money...

Caerphilly council in Wales has bought privately owned properties to provide housing for families who would otherwise find themselves in temporary...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...

Seventeen housing organisations have sent an open letter to the government rejecting its idea of prioritising British families when it comes...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

Shelter says there are nearly 139,000 children officially homeless and living in temporary accommodation - and it’s blaming the private rental...

Propertymark has issued a strongly-worded statement aimed at politicians demanding rent controls. Labour Members of the Scottish Parliament have urged the declaration...

The prospect of a long-term eviction ban appears to have been lifted in one part of the UK. The Welsh Government is...

A council has launched its own social lettings agency to work with private sector landlords in tackling the record numbers living...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, has slammed the government over the growing gap between housing benefit levels and even the lower end...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

A council is introducing a service which it claims will help identify properties which cannon future be used as private rental...

A new survey has been launched to gather views from people in a major English city on the idea of introducing...

The advocates of Build To Rent have made another ambitious target for the sector’s growth.  Research from the British Property Federation and...

The government has released new figures on the amount being spent by local councils on temporary accommodation for homeless households in...

London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...

A politician has called on Airbnb hosts in his local area to switch their properties to long-term rentals. Isle of Wight councillor...

Shelter claims that women are impacted by homelessness more than men, and says rising private rents are a contributory factor. In a...

Shelter claims the end of the eviction ban has contributed to creating over 274,000 people who are homeless in England right now, including 126,000 children. Shelter’s interpretation of official...

Shelter claims its helpline has received 1,000 callers a day since the eviction ban began easing at the start of summer. It says...

Knight Frank is this year’s headline sponsor of the LandAid Sleep Out, one of the causes many in the industry support. This...

It’s been reported that a London council is considering spending £10m on purchasing 25 former council homes it previously sold off...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

A lettings agency is calling on local councils to tackle the growing problem of long-term empty homes. My Property Box says that...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

Durham county council wants to spend just over £250,000 setting up a lettings agency to place tenants with private landlords. The authority...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

Letting agents and landlords could be missing out on £61m of rent every month because families in temporary and emergency accommodation...

A US firm that is believed to want a slice of the UK’s growing short-lets market has made a key business...

Bournemouth council has set up a private sector rental company which will see it buy properties and then let them.  The decision...