Rogue landlord hides in toilet then gets into wrong car while escaping reporters – video
Landlord Bernard McGowan tries to escape film crew by hiding in a cafe toilet
May 2016
Better boards
'I can't believe how I've flowered as a tenant on a housing board'
Being a member of the Lewisham Homes board has helped Ophelia Bobori develop new skills and given residents a voice of challenge and probity
Rayners Lane: estate regeneration that puts residents first
Entire communities are razed when regeneration follows the standard, developer-led model. Successful projects put the social landlord in charge
Darkness is a luxury not granted to Britain's council estates
Mona Sloane
Sink estates are not sunk – they're starved of funding
Victoria Pinoncely
Foster on Friday
Sadiq Khan must decide who to side with: residents or developers?
Dawn Foster
April 2016
Public servant: my letter to the public
Each 'investment opportunity' means a life of insecurity for the tenants I help
Anonymous
It used to be easier to help tenants find a permanent home or furniture for their family. Now, government is selling off social housing to the highest bidder
Is universal basic income too simplistic to meet housing need?
For supporters of basic income, Beveridge’s ‘problem of rent’ is an even bigger headache today than it was in the 40s
Tackling financial exclusion
The social landlords stepping in to help computer-illiterate residents
Universal credit will hugely increase demand for digital access – so housing associations have started doing more for tenants without the internet
March 2016
The women leading the charge in Britain's 150 year fight for social housing
Tackling financial exclusion
Compromised and under pressure: social housing in the wake of universal credit
February 2016
Sink estates are people's homes – they don't need to be demolished
Greg Foster
Forcing landlords to check tenants' immigration status won't be easy
David Smith
January 2016
The social housing tenants taking to Twitter to influence policy
Not all tenants want to be on a housing association board. Social media gives them the opportunity to shape housing and fight back against bad PR
Foster on Friday
Even Labour is failing those in housing need
Dawn Foster
Jeremy Corbyn’s dragged-out reshuffle handed the Tories a welcome distraction from their damaging housing bill
‘It’s a steel-toothed poverty trap’ – three tenants on the misery of pay to stay
With properly affordable rents in social housing under attack, older working women explain why they are so worried by the government’s new policy
December 2015
2015 in housing: 12 months of growing crisis
Tackling financial exclusion
The high-wire act of Christmas on the poverty line
Better boards
As a social housing tenant, I have always been treated with dignity
Sally Gibson
As Cumbria struggles, Osborne plots to build homes on floodplains
