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London councils report 120% year-on-year rise in requests for return of properties used as temporary homesHomeless families are being evicted from emergency accommodation to be replaced by private tenants as the number of landlords quitting the tempora…
In today’s newsletter: Despite a lower cap on energy bills, the cost of heating could remain crippling high and leave millions in fuel poverty• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.August is coming to an end and as the days …
Exclusive: Data shows more than 34,000 households placed out of area last year, with some moved more than 200 miles awayCouncils are moving homeless families out of their neighbourhoods at almost three times the rate that has been officially recognised…
Costs forecast to increase again from January despite announcement of fall in energy price capMinisters have been urged to intervene to prevent a “winter of despair and suffering” by offering financial support to millions of households facing unmanagea…
Watchdog says little progress made on recommendations of 2016 report that said government violated disabled people’s rightsDisabled people in the UK face worsening discrimination and a growing risk of poverty as a result of government failures to tackl…
As temperatures rise, a vast but aging system is feeling the strains of rising energy costs, increasing water scarcity and mounting pressure on public budgets.
Number of black and minority ethnic workers in low-paid and insecure jobs doubled in past decade, figures revealsThe number of black and minority ethnic (BME) workers in insecure work has more than doubled, from 360,200 to 836,340, between 2011 to 2022…
Which? research finds cheese, butter and bread are up by more than 30% in the past two years, hitting the poor hardestThe cost of some basic food items such as cheese, butter and bread has soared by more than 30% in the last two years, forcing poorer h…
Georgia pilot gives 650 predominantly Black women $850 a month for two years, no strings attached – and it seems to be workingLa-Kingya Singleton almost didn’t answer the call. It was after 5 pm and from an 800- phone number. “I thought it was a roboca…
First large-scale UK investigation of its kind discovers social deprivation and ethnicity both affect sleepPeople living in deprived areas of the UK have poorer sleep quality than those in affluent areas, the first large-scale study of sleep across the…