Depression and closed shops: Port Talbot residents fear impact of blast furnace closure
Demise of steelworks in Welsh town taking heavy toll, with job losses and higher rates of mental illness
English councils illegally turning away homeless young people, charity says
Centrepoint records 564 instances of ‘gatekeeping’ including dozens involving young people who were pregnant or had children
Mould, mice and floods of raw sewage: why is so much social housing unsafe?
Kwajo Tweneboa
Our social housing is still riddled with hazards, and residents tell me their living conditions feel like ‘torture’. What will it take for the government to step in, asks Kwajo Tweneboa
September 2024
Yimbys hear this – simply building more homes won’t solve our housing crisis
Phineas Harper
The housing crisis is global. What are other countries doing about it?
Alan Kohler
America's dirty divide
Green roofs and solar chimneys are here – experts say it’s time to use them
Labour needs to build neighbourhoods, not just houses
Yorkshire has lowest ratio of bank branches to people in UK, says Which?
Labour’s planning policy changes are welcome, but won’t deliver enough homes
‘It’s now controlled by the actual people here’: the Cornish town that saved its own music festival
Nearly half of prisoners at HMP Brixton tell watchdog it is easy to obtain drugs
Ed Miliband pledges to end scourge of cold and draughty rented homes
Nimby name-calling will not solve Britain’s housing crisis
Labour, beware: Britain’s housing crisis is driving voters towards populism
John Harris
Is Labour on track to meet its promises on the environment?
‘All sorts happens here’: the battle to save a beloved Manchester social club
New home planning approvals in England fall to lowest level in a decade
‘Quite shocking’ lack of government contact during UK riots, says MCB head
Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey
I’m a devout agnostic. But, like Nick Cave, I hunger for meaning in our chaotic world
