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Outreach and charity workers talk about the day-to-day issues they face when dealing with the city’s homelessness problemEngland likely to miss target to end rough sleeping by 2024, says CrisisJust outside a busy McDonald’s in Birmingham city centre a …
Homelessness charity says it is ‘incredibly disappointing’ to see rough sleeping on rise across country‘You just have to keep trying’: the people helping Birmingham’s rough sleepersA leading charity has said the government is likely to miss its target …
Home Builders Federation warns planning policy changes will result in government meeting less than half its annual targetHousebuilding in England is due to fall to its lowest level since the second world war, according to an analysis by the Home Builde…
Defenders of LTNs in Oxford report antisemitic and conspiracy-theory chanting at confrontations over traffic reduction measuresFar-right activists and other extremists are attempting to hijack local issues such as low-traffic schemes by linking them to…
Mike fled Ukraine with his wife and young son last year. Now in the UK, he describes the family’s past year‘My son is brave, but he’s scared’: Kyiv father’s diary of first week of invasionAfter fleeing the war in Kyiv in March, I travelled with my wife…
Gangs among those buying up cheap houses and claiming housing benefit for vulnerable people who do not live there, police sayRogue landlords are conning the government out of millions of pounds by fraudulently claiming housing benefits for so-called “g…
Campaigners say millions are struggling, in letter to Michael Gove signed by leaders of Manchester, Liverpool and LondonAn immediate rent freeze and a ban on evictions should be introduced in England to help renters deal with the cost of living crisis,…
Actor accuses government of ‘further dividing communities’ after 138-year-old venue loses £1.8m grantThe actor Maxine Peake has accused the government of “further dividing communities” after one of Britain’s oldest theatres lost its arts subsidy.Manage…
Yvette Cooper to cite BBC’s Happy Valley star in major policy speech on restoring community policing Labour will pledge to restore thousands of community officers such as Happy Valley’s Catherine Cawood, saying the local knowledge to tackle antisocial…
Faisal Abdullah thanks Michael Gove for announcing ‘Awaab’s law’, after death of two-year-old in RochdaleThe father of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, who was killed by mould in a social housing flat, has welcomed a new law to prevent a repeat tragedy, sayin…