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We are in desperate need of new homes — a fact on which Brits tend to agree. They tend to disagree, though, over where to put them, and these battles generally concentrate on the edges of cities. Take the Government’s new plan to build on grey-belt land — “poor quality…

Tories acuse London mayor of ‘unacceptably low’ levels of affordable housebuilding in capital

Labour’s proposals for reform are a start, but we need the system to be more ambitious, more imaginative and more proactive, says writer Phineas Harper

The election of the Labour government has been accompanied by a renewed appetite to deal with England’s housing crisis. Among the first of its policy initiatives, announced by deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, is the reintroduction of a national housing target – 1.5 million new homes over the period of…

We’re getting back the employment rights snatched by the Tories. That could change life for millions of people, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The planned move comes as part of the government’s plan to overhaul the planning system and build 1.5 million new homes by 2030

REMOVING the two-child cap on benefits would "lift a lot of children out of poverty” and Labour could have scrapped it, a UK Government…

Letters: David Woollcombe points out the crucial need for infrastructure to be built alongside new homes. Plus letters from Dr Stephen Battersby, Tony Ingham and Martin Large

Senior figures praise repeal of law but privately some want full workers’ rights overhaul implemented without delay

Labour’s plans to ease the housing crisis should focus on quality as much as quantity

Memo tells ministers to disregard minimum service levels rules, as part of reforms to reorder industrial relations