A former soup kitchen in London's East End. But are charities today still in touch with the communities they were set up to serve? Photograph: David Levene/Guardian Thirty years ago almost to the day, I was hitch-hiking back from Liverpool, bearded, ...
If the recession poses a huge challenge for Labour, it is not easy either for the Conservatives. Denied the reality of power and the resources of the civil service machine, the threat of irrelevance is ever present. Their good ideas can be co-opted; ...
Adam Sampson: Government plans to limit council house tenancies could end up penalising those who have tried to better their ...
The Bank of England has played its trump card. Slashing interest rates sent a clear message to banks that the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street is prepared to do everything in her power to cushion the economy from impending disaster. But is it going to ...
So, we now have a nationalised banking system. OK – a partially nationalised system. But the same question arises. Will the system continue to be motivated by profit, or will the new entrenched public interest change banking behaviour? We will quickly ...
Media speculation is always a matter of claim and counter claim, bluff and spin, truth and distortion. But today's news reports on councils and housing associations being given the power to help first-time buyers with deposits in return for an equity ...
Letter: Members of the House of Lords may be concerned to learn that some housing associations are continuing to evict ...
On May 1st, voters should consider the housing manifestos of each mayoral candidate because the new mayor must be serious about acting on their housing crisis pledges. It is now just over a week until London decides. The slanderous war of words is ...
Shelter's Adam Sampson responds to Housing Minister Caroline Flint and her call to tie social housing to employment I, like many, woke up on Tuesday morning to hear new housing minister Caroline Flint's proposal to tie access to social housing to ...
Of the 257 street homeless people interviewed in Shelter's new report, 32% hadn't had a permanent place to stay for more than three years. Photograph: PA Stephanie was forced to leave home at the age of 22. For years she had suffered domestic abuse, ...
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