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Housing

Should taxpayers pay for solar panels to be installed on homes?
solar panels on the roof of a block of flats
Green energy

Should taxpayers pay for solar panels to be installed on homes?

Emergent Energy’s Reg Platt changed the law to allow people living in flats to install solar panels on the roof of their homes. He tells Big Issue that anyone looking to drive the clean energy revolution must look beyond the government
Good news for renters – the rental boom is finally over, says Zoopla
a renter holding a set of keys on the stairs of a home
RENTING

Good news for renters – the rental boom is finally over, says Zoopla

Labour has committed to a warm homes breakthrough – but we're not out of the cold yet
Energy secretary Ed Miliband with solar panels
Simon Francis

Labour has committed to a warm homes breakthrough – but we're not out of the cold yet

Labour pledge to end use of asylum hotels 'good for refugees, the taxpayer and communities'
Immigration

Labour pledge to end use of asylum hotels 'good for refugees, the taxpayer and communities'

What was in Rachel Reeves' historic spending review – and what was missing?
Spending review

What was in Rachel Reeves' historic spending review – and what was missing?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Rachel Reeves announces 'biggest cash injection into social housing in 50 years'
Darren Jones and Rachel Reeves prepare for the spending review
Spending review

Rachel Reeves announces 'biggest cash injection into social housing in 50 years'

Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: 'People don't know their rights'
Law

Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: 'People don't know their rights'

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of 'cruel' 200-year law
Vagrancy Act continues to punish rough sleepers
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of 'cruel' 200-year law

I spent more than 20 years homeless and battling addiction. Giving me a home turned my life around
Prince William, Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and Wayne
Homelessness

I spent more than 20 years homeless and battling addiction. Giving me a home turned my life around

What could be in Rachel Reeves' spending review – and what should be?
Spending Review

What could be in Rachel Reeves' spending review – and what should be?

This housing project claims it could save Labour millions on housing asylum seekers in hotels
A refugees welcome sign painted on the ground
Homelessness

This housing project claims it could save Labour millions on housing asylum seekers in hotels

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children
Film

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children

Letters: My middle-class, lifelong Labour-voting friends are turning to Reform UK
Letters

Letters: My middle-class, lifelong Labour-voting friends are turning to Reform UK

Council clamps down on Airbnbs and short-term lets in bid to tackle housing crisis
Tourism

Council clamps down on Airbnbs and short-term lets in bid to tackle housing crisis

How worried should we really be about schools closing in London?
school children at desks
Schools

How worried should we really be about schools closing in London?

Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market
Letters

Letters: Landlords should be made illegal to fix the housing market

'Explain to me why I'm homeless': Rough sleeper's rage tells us a lot about what's keeping people homeless
Homelessness

'Explain to me why I'm homeless': Rough sleeper's rage tells us a lot about what's keeping people homeless

Government warned disability benefit cuts will drive people into homelessness, not work
keir starmer
Homelessness

Government warned disability benefit cuts will drive people into homelessness, not work

Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and The Salt Path author Raynor Winn on homelessness and human spirit
Film

Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs and The Salt Path author Raynor Winn on homelessness and human spirit

Homelessness in Northern Ireland more than doubles in a decade: 'People have no other option'
a person experiencing homelessness on the street
Homelessness

Homelessness in Northern Ireland more than doubles in a decade: 'People have no other option'

Nearly half of Brits only £100 away from being overdue on their rent or mortgage: 'On a knife edge'
Rent

Nearly half of Brits only £100 away from being overdue on their rent or mortgage: 'On a knife edge'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'This place is a vital force for good': An off-grid community's desperate fight to save their home
Community

'This place is a vital force for good': An off-grid community's desperate fight to save their home

'Without Big Issue we wouldn't be here today': How Big Issue opened doors for smash hit The Salt Path
Books

'Without Big Issue we wouldn't be here today': How Big Issue opened doors for smash hit The Salt Path

Sadiq Khan reveals new plan to end rough sleeping in London for good – with prevention at its heart
Rough Sleeping

Sadiq Khan reveals new plan to end rough sleeping in London for good – with prevention at its heart

Croydon family spends staggering 9,500 days in so-called temporary accommodation
A child at home
Temporary Accomodation

Croydon family spends staggering 9,500 days in so-called temporary accommodation

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