Housing
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Why has Boris Johnson’s policy deputy become so protective of the tenants of homes he wants to sell off?
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The flagship policy has failed to deliver new homes so the government is considering building them itself. But will it do so?
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London council proposes action after revealing 30% of homes built in last six years have nobody on the electoral register
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It might help some first time buyers for a while, but the chancellor’s autumn statement doesn’t start to address the capital’s biggest housing issues
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Tenant Helen Kunda, 29, was hoping for more affordable homes and says cutting stamp duty makes little difference to her
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Comic and actor tweets that he intends to sue newspaper over front page story questioning his housing arrangements
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This is no example of the north/south divide – I can’t find a single voice in support of the effective privatisation of social housing, says Tony Stacey
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Amelia Gentleman: As thousands of tenants face court battles to keep the bailiffs at bay, housing charities call for greater protection for renters
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Government agency could plan, build and sell tens of thousands of homes on public sector land, under proposals being prepared by Treasury chief secretary
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It seems no amount of homebuilding or flood defences will stop the Lib Dems being washed away in next year’s election
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Comedian called Channel 4 reporter ‘a snide’ when asked how much his rent costs during New Era protest at Downing Street
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The quaint British garden city is being exported to the urban metropolises of China. David Ames from Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation went to find out how the idea travels
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Danny Alexander tells housebuilding sector ‘if you don’t build them, we will’, with pilot project under way in Cambridgeshire
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Ed Davey, energy secretary, plans to start talks next month to discuss the potential of the UK’s first lagoon power project
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Young, old and politically charged – residents of east London housing estate take their growing campaign against eviction to American landlord’s headquarters in Mayfair
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‘600 affordable homes better than nothing’ says mayor of luxury development, adding money will fund Northern Line extension
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Rolling coverage as residents of the east London estate and supporters staged demonstration against US investment company Westbrook’s plans to evict 93 families
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Residents of east London estate stage demo at Westbrook Partners’ HQ in Mayfair to protest against plans to evict them
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Ally Fogg: Shocking evidence of the effects of austerity in Britain is being met with a silence that suggests a dangerous indifference
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Labour’s Sadiq Khan claims New Era situation is ‘shameful’, ahead of major protest by residents and supporters on Monday
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Of 2,000 people questioned, 78% think the government should place a higher priority on tackling empty homes
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Disability charity wants government to order building of easily adaptable ‘lifetime’ houses
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As MPs debate the issue of ‘revenge evictions’, what you can do to get things fixed?
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Electrician says council-reclaimed London home with eight rooms is most dangerous property he has seen in decades
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How people with learning disabilities are improving housing and mental health services
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Granby Four Streets in Toxteth is a rare success after New Labour initiatives drained the area of life
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We’d like to find out what it’s like to rent in the UK. Are you being forced out of your area by rent rises? Or do you have a good experiences of being a tenant? Share your stories via GuardianWitness
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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: Notebook: With the country facing an affordable housing crisis, I couldn’t care less that a multimillionaire actor is miffed about a tax hit
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Amber Rudd appeals against plans to scrap funding for crisis schemes as cross-party opposition to £180m a year cut grows
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The number of private renters living in poverty has doubled in a decade even though the rates for everybody else have fallen. Hannah Aldridge explains why
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Westbrook partners investor attacked for £4m home as firm plans offshore ownership for flats to avoid corporation tax
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Soon there will be more Londoners than ever before but some of the challenges the city will face are much the same as they were decades ago
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US investment firm says tenancies will continue unchanged into 2015, but residents say statement has not allayed their fears
Estate families at mercy of international speculators
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Still here: reflections on later life What do the Masai in Tanzania and tenants on Hoxton’s New Era estate have in common?
Michele Hanson: both face eviction by Christmas. Is it any wonder the news is getting me down?
Ian Jack on Saturday I had thought the New Era estate might spark a London revolution. I was wrong