Living hell: Britain’s rent crisis
One in five UK households are now in private rented homes while rents for new tenancies are up by more than 25% since 2020 despite worsening conditions and squalor. We look at the rental sector – and those suffering its failings – across the country
‘I want to get out’: two landlords on the ‘broken’ property rental market
From high rents to repossessions and public opprobrium, it’s not just tenants who say the system isn’t working
Man faces dying of lung cancer in London home full of black mould – video
Dimitrios Triantafyllidis has terminal lung cancer and is living in a house full of damp and black mould
Germany proves that private renting can work better than it does in Britain
Germans typically stay far longer in their rented homes, which are cheaper and have secure tenancies
Terminally ill man faces living last days in mould-ridden London flat
Efforts to rehouse Dimitrios Triantafyllidis fail, with family saying many landlords will not accept dying tenant
Residents rise up against damp homes in Little London, Rotherham
Residents who had feared eviction if they complained are uniting to force improvements to estate’s porous concrete housing
Find out where you can afford to buy or rent in Great Britain
The typical household cannot afford to buy a mid-price home in almost half of postal districts, while renting is unsustainable in others. Use the map below to see where is affordable for you
Derelict site on London’s Billionaire’s Row ‘has space for 300 homes’
The families stuck living in Britain’s unlicensed bedsits
‘There’s no space’: rogue landlords double income by ignoring overcrowding rules
Local authorities lack funding to track landlords who take advantage of desperate tenants priced out of the conventional rental market
Bedsit Britain: 160,000 people in England crammed into unlicensed housing
Exclusive: Analysis suggests there are 32,000 hidden, often overcrowded large houses in multiple occupation
‘I get so depressed’: forced to live in a London bedsit with 13 to a bathroom
A homeless mother is renting in a house that appears to breach overcrowding limits because she cannot afford anywhere else
Five things that could help fix Britain’s private rented sector
UK renters offer tenant CVs and year’s rent upfront to try to secure a home
'Get out': father of boy killed by mould in flat sends message to other tenants – video
Father of boy killed by mould in flat urges tenants with similar issue to ‘get out’
‘It actually feels like my place’: Scotland’s rent cap helps tenants but loopholes remain
Cashing in? The mortgage-free landlords who are raising the rent anyway
Confiscate properties from rogue landlords, says senior Labour MP
Clive Betts says seizure threat would create ‘significant deterrent’ among those who treat fines as business cost
‘I was afraid of him’: renting from one of London’s worst landlords
Couple who were tenants of Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool offer cautionary tale of how rogue landlords can leave trail of misery
‘They’ve attacked families with cordless drills’: the man taking on rogue landlords
Ben Reeve-Lewis, of Safer Renting, has seen criminal landlords switch off electricity and play ‘mind games’ to force tenants out
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