Rise up to fix the housing crisis

Our housing special explores the innovative ways communities are building their own affordable homes. It asks big questions about how the government can meet its housebuilding target, and examines how we can close the skills gap by training the next generation of construction workers. We also meet one local authority making a giant leap towards net-zero by decarbonising old housing stock. All this and much more in our 24-page extra housing supplement, only in this week’s Big Issue magazine.

Also inside

• Blitz director Steve McQueen and star Saoirse Ronan talk exclusively about the making of their new movie, and how it goes beyond the war narrative to shows Britain as it really was, drawing parallels with who we are as a nation today
• In the second part of our special investigation into dangerous synthetic opioids flooding the streets of the UK, we spoke to a grieving mother fighting for change
• Sir Stephen Timms, minister for social security, outlines how he plans to fix the disability pay gap
• Pauline Black was at the vanguard of 2-Tone with her band, The Selecter. In her Letter To My Younger Self she retraces her amazing journey from NHS radiographer to international star
• Daisy Buchanan is a Jilly Cooper superfan. So she’s perfectly placed to review Rivals, the new, gloriously OTT screen adaptation of her much-read novel
• And Cwmbran vendor Victor Lewis tells all about his star turn on Prince William’s Homewards documentary

Plus much more!

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