Housing
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With the byelection approaching, many of us feel the real issues confronting our community could be sidelined by this never-ending debate about the EU
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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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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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Number of lettings costing more than £3,000 a week increased by 28% in the last three months of 2016, research shows
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Soaring rents and low wages have hit the poorest families in the US hard. Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond introduces an extract from his heartbreaking new book about the crisis
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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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On reflection Let the councils build homes again and fix our broken housing market
Patrick CollinsonSajid Javid admits we need 275,000 new homes a year, but if local authorities borrow to build they are branded as irresponsible socialists -
As the government admits England’s housing market is ‘broken’, we speak to homeowners and tenants who say they cannot afford to stay in the capital
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What does the future hold for those in search of somewhere to live, now that the government has signalled a relaxation of minimum space standards?
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Community groups warn government not to scrap agreement, which sees $1.3bn a year given to states and territories
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Heather Stewart is joined by Polly Toynbee, Ryan Shorthouse and John Healey to discuss the passage of the Brexit bill through the Commons and the government’s new housing strategy. Plus we hear from Labour’s leader in the Lords, Baroness Smith, and Angelique Chrisafis on the French election
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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
Foster on Friday A hard Brexit would risk deepening the UK housing crisis