Communities
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I’ve often been exasperated by the misrepresentations of people like me who have been in care. But plays put on by The Big House are changing the narrative
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World mayor project recognises leaders of three European cities for offering refugees safety, shelter and support
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Our series will bring you information about the people and places grappling with the homelessness crisis in the US – what can we learn from their stories?
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At Centrepoint we want to help the thousands of young people who approach their council every year for help with housing - and are turned away
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Other lives: Vicar’s wife who went ballooning in her 80s, held a ceilidh at 90 and met the King of Lesotho at 100
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Channel 4 programme shows more women are becoming homeless and being treated far worse on the streets and by councils
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Utopian thinking Utopian thinking: the eclipse of neoliberalism heralds a new dawn of sharing
Minna SalamiMany of the problems humanity faces are shared ones. That’s why it is so vital that we start to find communitarian solutions to social problems
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Letters: A national comprehensive review of housing and urban regeneration is desperately needed, including new-build provision, planning policies and the challenges of older housing stock and neighbourhoods
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Sociologist Matthew Desmond on the genesis of Evicted, his acclaimed book about the housing crisis gripping the US
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The supply of planning permission is increasing but the supply of new houses is not
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Slashed budgets risk the nation’s 27,000 parks becoming no-go areas, with negative effects on park-goers’ health and the environment
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Constrained by government and with a lack of funding, local authorities are becoming developers to tackle the homes crisis
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Foster on Friday If you really want more houses built, Sajid Javid, stop strangling councils
Dawn FosterThe government’s previous policies have done far more to worsen the housing crisis than this week’s lacklustre white paper can rectify
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To solve the housing crisis we need new ideas, not garden cities
Frances HollissNew models of living and working make more sense than chasing nostalgic utopian visions of garden cities -
Rics survey heaps further misery on Britain’s growing army of renters, who will have fewer properties to choose from
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The secretary of state for community’s plan is ill-conceived. Public money should switch to social housing – to need, and not demand
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Letters: The government persists in relying on ‘the market’ for the provision of something ‘the market’ does not want to provide: economic housing
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Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including the second day of the article 50 bill’s committee stage debate
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Editorial: Mrs May’s team has missed an opportunity to repudiate a Thatcherite inheritance. Instead their policies offer to continue the obsession with house prices – a fixation that has long destabilised the economy
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Recipients falling into rent arrears because of payment delays, forcing them to turn to food banks, Guardian investigation reveals
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Housing experts find more to criticise than praise in the government’s plan, branded ‘beyond feeble’ by Labour, to solve the housing crisis
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Letters: Tenants need an emergency housing bill which places an immediate freeze on rent increases prior to introducing rent controls
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Notebook Luxury flats instead of birdsong: can regeneration ever be the right thing?
Patrick BarkhamThe priceless tranquillity of an inner-city green space – yards from St Pancras station – is threatened by a developer. And the developer is a Labour council -
Orchard Village in east London, which was built with £31m of public money, plagued by issues of poor building quality
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Orchard Village in east London was built in 2014 as a bold replacement for the notorious Mardyke estate, which provided the setting for the gritty film Fish Tank. But conditions are so bad that some residents think it should be demolished
Foster on Friday A hard Brexit would risk deepening the UK housing crisis