Features
Blurring the boundaries: The future of housing
Things were once so clear. Social landlords charged low rents and offered security of tenure. Private landlords charged high rents and offered six-month ...
Fact or Fiction? Tower blocks
Despite a chequered history and questionable benefits, high-rise living is very much back in vogue. ...
Fact or Fiction? Housing on TV
Following Channel 4’s week of shows devoted to George Clarke, I mean the UK housing crisis, we...
Grant Shapps: 'We must build the homes this country needs'
In his first column for 24housing magazine, Housing Minister Grant Shapps discusses the thinking behind the...
Making a mint? Hunting the ‘fat cat’ social housing tenants
‘Rich’ tenants have become one of the targets in the Coalition’s drive to increase &...
Fact or Fiction? Hilary Benn
To mark the appointment of Hilary Benn as Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government...
Under-occupancy benefit cuts: a few spare thoughts
You’d have a job to pick the most concerning welfare reform announced by the Coalition so far. To...
Trading places: How the other half live
American novelist Harper Lee famously wrote: “You never really know a man until you stand in h...
Right to Buy: can the Tories finish what they started?
The Government’s bid to revitalise the Right to Buy has been driven on the desire to generate ...
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