42 h. ago Energy bills could finally be cut in welcome news for households says forecast

The energy price cap is set to be cut this summer in a much-needed boost for households already struggling with the cost of living crisis, according to new forecasts

Science

3 d. ago More and more children facing homelessness as city's housing crisis grows

The council has taken a number of steps to try and turn things around.

Society

4 d. ago Private landlord scheme is helping fight Edinburgh housing crisis: Major benefits for owners who sign up

The City of Edinburgh Council’s Private Sector Leasing (PSL) scheme is an initiative to create much-needed emergency housing while providing landlords with guaranteed, long-term rental income.

Events

4 d. ago How to fix a housing crisis: building alone won't help affordability or end homelessness in London

It’s true that too few homes are being built in London but without making it easier to buy too, developers will never build at scale

Events

4 d. ago London's housing crisis is harming generations — so how could we fix it?

A £2bn funding boost for new homes in England was announced this week ahead of today’s spring statement but the housing market’s problems run deep. Here’s an overview of where we are and how we got there

Events

4 d. ago There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world. What can the future hold for them?

Tens of thousands of children have been wounded in Gaza. Even those evacuated for treatment face an impossible pathWhen I entered the home in north-east Philadelphia, Elias, a lively four-year-old boy, grabbed the pack of KitKats I had brought with me and began swinging it over his head. He whirled around in circles, hollering something unintelligible. In a familiar scene – I have small children of my own – his mother tried to impose order, but yielded to the greater force of a kid on sugar kept indoors by a cold snap.Elias, his five-year-old sister Taline and nine-year-old brother Khaled were in the US because Elias and Taline needed urgent medical care. They had sustained staggering injuries when an Israeli pilot or drone operator shot a missile at the house they were taking refuge in. The explosion cleaved Elias’s right leg off below the knee. Taline’s injuries were also severe; she arrived in the US with external fixators – pins and steel in her legs – as she battled infection. ...

Politics

5 d. ago Labour admits welfare squeeze will push another 250,000 Brits into poverty

In the Government's own assessment of its benefits changes, it was estimated an extra 250,000 people will be in relative poverty after housing costs in 2029/30.

Politics

5 d. ago Good morning Britain – prepare to be told yet again that decline is all you deserve | Owen Jones

It’s Groundhog Day: the party may change but even under Labour, the script remains stubbornly the sameIt is time to resuscitate Margaret Thatcher’s catchphrase: “There is no alternative.” With a twist, of course. Back then, “Tina” was deployed in favour of an economic model that gave us badly distributed low growth, shambolic rip-off privatised utilities, a housing crisis and social insecurity. It is now devastatingly clear that there is no alternative to discarding this failed experiment.Yet this week, our supposedly Labour chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will take a scalpel to departmental budgets already devastated by 15 years of austerity. Our government has robbed most pensioners of the winter fuel payment, and announced £5bn worth of cuts to disability benefits, which strip support from citizens unable to independently clothe themselves, or who need an aide to use the toilet. By the time of the next election, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, all households will have suf...

Politics

5 d. ago Heartbroken widow facing homelessness hell day after husband's funeral

Hazel Cunningham and her three young children face losing their rented Glasgow home when it hits the market - after renting it for 14 years.

Politics

5 d. ago Housing crisis spurs alternatives to building homes, from 3D printing to walls made from hemp

Businesses and lawmakers are trying to address the U.S. affordable housing crisis by turning to alternative ways to build homes

Events

5 d. ago Duchess of Edinburgh and Jess Phillips raise need to tackle online child abuse

Sophie and Ms Phillips will travel to Brussels on Wednesday, where European politicians are gathering to draw attention to the harms children face.

Events

5 d. ago Los Angeles moves to take control of homelessness agency, citing audits that found reckless spending

Los Angeles officials have moved to take control of hundreds of millions of dollars in homelessness spending after two scathing audits found the government agency currently responsible for that money has spent it recklessly and without transparency

Politics

6 d. ago Rogue landlord jailed over 'massive' fraud which left tenants homeless and suicidal

Fraudulent trading by lettings agencies Citiside and Flintons left victims homeless and financially bereft

Events

6 d. ago Duchess of Sussex is accused of using Archie and Lilibet as 'clickbait' in an 'act of desperation' to promote her new 'Meghan's Mall' digital shop

Meghan Markle shared a rare picture of her with her two young children Archie and Lilibet - with their faces turned away or obscured - on her As Ever Instagram page.

Politics

6 d. ago Rogue estate agents carried out illegal evictions and swindled deposits in 'massive' fraud

Fraudulent trading by lettings agencies Citiside and Flintons left victims homeless and financially bereft

Events

8 d. ago In Salford the row over 'rectangles in the sky' takes a twist

A scheme that would create 3,300 new homes spread across ten new tower blocks has provoked a huge number of objections, but could it help solve Salford's housing crisis? Neal Keeling reports.

Politics

8 d. ago Inside the fragile harmony between one Somerset town’s locals and the ‘down from Londons’

Two years ago, as property prices in Frome soared amid an influx of people moving from London, Frome Town Council declared a housing crisis. Today, Alex Ross speaks to a community determined to overcome the while becoming increasingly aware of a widening gap in wealth

Politics

1 week ago I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There by Róisín Lanigan review – a housing crisis ghost story

London’s property market is the villain in this wry gothic novel for generation rentTo a certain extent, all rented properties are haunted. The spectres of previous tenants lurk in the bedside tables and slogan mugs they left behind; their fag smoke lingers in the carpets; the post they failed to redirect piles up in the hall. Neighbours, too, can feel like phantoms: we might rarely see them, but we hear their footsteps and their music, inhale their cooking smells, or simply somehow sense their recently departed presences on the communal stairs. As for landlords: they’re probably the biggest ghouls of all.In light of all this, it’s perhaps surprising that we haven’t seen more housing crisis ghost stories, or, as Róisín Lanigan’s debut has been billed, a “gothic novel for generation rent”. I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There is the story of Áine and Elliot, who have just moved into a rental together in a gentrified area of London. It’s a flat that, ominously, no one else see...

Events

2 w. ago A million children 'face losing free school meals over the next five years' as protections end for parents moving on to universal credit

Since 2018, there have been protections for existing claimants to continue to receive free school meals while universal credit is rolled out.

Society

2 w. ago Mum fined £480 for taking kids on holiday takes extreme action

A mum of three faces backlash for taking her three primary-aged children out of school for a whole term rather than risk getting a criminal record and another fine

Economics