Growing up renting: A childhood spent in private rented homes
Our rental market is having a damaging impact on children’s lives.
Shelter - Posted 20/05/2013 |
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What to do about the squeezed middle’s housing pressures?
I’m starting to hear a lot about the problem of housing for low to middle income households.
Shelter - Posted 16/05/2013 |
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Tales from the front line: getting tough on rogue landlords
This won’t be the first time you’ve heard Shelter talking about rogue landlords. We’ve been calling on local authorities to take tough, visible enforcement action against these landlords for some time now.
Shelter - Posted 14/05/2013 |
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Renters' health at risk
One in nine renters says their health has been affected by their landlord’s failure to carry out repairs or deal with poor conditions in their home, new Shelter research has revealed.
Shelter - Posted 14/05/2013 |
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The power of buy to let
Figures out from the Council of Mortgage Lenders today show that buy to let mortgage lending – mortgages for landlords buying property to rent out – has reached a record high.
Shelter - Posted 10/05/2013 |
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The interest only timebomb
One of the big advantages of owning a home is that one day you’ll have paid for it outright. You’ll have no housing costs, no debt, full security of tenure; a few less things to worry about in old age.
Shelter - Posted 02/05/2013 |
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Video: 9 million renters
We want action taken to make renting better for the 9 million renters of England. Join us today. Let's fix renting.
Shelter - Posted 01/05/2013 |
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Flat liners: housing and growth
When the UK fell into double dip recession last year, we argued that we must tackle our housing crisis and economic crisis together and build homes to get us back to growth.
Shelter - Posted 25/04/2013 |
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A better fit? Creating housing choices for an ageing population
England’s population is ageing, and fast. By 2030 one in three people are projected to be aged 55 and over.
Shelter - Posted 22/04/2013 |
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PDF: Little boxes, fewer homes
Setting housing space standards will get
more homes built.
Shelter - Posted 17/04/2013 |
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