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The UK housing crisis isn’t just about mortgages – private renters desperately need help too

The local housing allowance freeze is pushing many tenants into dangerous, poor quality accommodation, says Alex Diner, a researcher at the New Economics Foundation

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2023

Child killer Aaron Campbell's family home sells for knock-down price

Video footage of Campbell clambering over a wall into the four-bedroom detached villa was key to proving the case against Campbell after he abducted, raped and murdered little Alesha MacPhail.

Glasgow Live · Jul 5, 2023

Home of evil Scots child killer Aaron Campbell sold five years after Alesha MacPhail murder

The four bedroom property on Rothesay was put on the market last year for a fixed price of £230,000.

Daily Record · Jul 5, 2023

Help to buy has trapped me in an unsellable cladded flat

My block failed a fire safety inspection after Grenfell, but the scheme won’t allow me to buy a second property

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2023

Big changes in city centre square as office and restaurant plan tweaked

A fresh design has been revealed by the developer

Manchester Evening News · Jul 5, 2023

No loss of housing pressure in Qld's project pipeline

Queensland's government is working to boost housing supply while sticking with an ambitious infrastructure pipeline of new hospitals and Olympic upgrades.

AAP · Jul 5, 2023

YIMBYs and NIMBYs unite! You can have both heritage protection and more housing

Heritage conservation has been blamed for making the housing crisis worse by standing in the way of new, higher-density housing. But protecting heritage and increasing housing should be complementary objectives. Heritage suffers when not enjoyed by our growing communities. Housing suffers when not shaped by our communal heritage.

The Conversation · Jul 5, 2023

Not all rent control policies are the same – the Green Party proposal deserves an open-minded debate

The ink was barely dry on the Green Party’s recently unveiled “Pledge to Renters” – which included annual rent increase limits, a rental warrant of fitness and a national register of landlords – before others were consigning it to the policy dustbin.

The Conversation · Jul 5, 2023

London renting crisis: number of private homes to rent drops to ‘disastrous’ new low across the capital

Londoners scramble for fewer properties as rents continue to soar

Evening Standard · Jul 4, 2023

Landlord's fury as double yellow lines painted in pregnant mum's 'parking space'

Landlord Tony Green has said that double yellow lines were put down by Northumberland Council "without warning" outside the house of his pregnant tenant who has been left with nowhere to park

Daily Mirror · Jul 4, 2023