A senior coroner in Rochdale has said of the toddler’s death that it should be a defining moment for social housing in the UK. Experts point out that we have been here before.
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Tenants in social housing and the private rental market alike face discrimination and a lack of disrepair regulation.
Domestic violence is a housing issue. Ensuring survivors have access to safe accommodation is key to enabling them to escape.
Despite millions of free homes built since 1994, spatial inequality in South Africa remains high. A study evaluating a programme to boost rentals in well-located areas found mixed results, however.
For decades, social housing has been defunded and ignored. The system is now broken, and it needs to be fixed.
The approach to housing in the UK hasn’t worked for years. What could we learn from how it’s done in other countries?
Improving social housing can help reduce emergency hospital admissions – and more.
The tangled web of responsibility for London’s council estates could cloud investigations into the Grenfell Tower fire.
As fire tore through Grenfell Tower, I witnessed the complete and terrible destruction of 120 homes just like the one I grew up in.
It’s worth preserving Britain’s brutalist buildings for two key reasons: heritage, and money.
Rocketing rents? Fierce protests against housing policies against the interests of the poor? Cereal Killer attacks have many predecessors - particularly Glasgow in 1915.
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Reader, Department of Architecture & Visual Arts , School of Architecture Computing and Engineering, University of East London
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Professor of Epidemiology, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, Aston University
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Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Enterprise and Competitiveness, University of Birmingham
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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