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The housing crisis for young people

Molly Monaghan -
The property ladder is something that has always been difficult to get onto, but it has become increasingly more difficult due to a multitude...
Housing

Local Hollybush Residents Oppose Redevelopment Plans

Lois Ulasi -
A group of neighbours has come together to campaign against a six-storey development which will leave them living in the shadows. Local residents close to...
Housing

Couchsurfing Around The Capitals

Carissa Svedberg -
Come surfing with Carissa Svedberg around some of the UK's capital couches. Check in for the journey by clicking on the picture below... All Shorthand...
Housing

The Hidden Consequence Of Child Poverty

Jordan Jones -
In 2019-20, 4.3 million children (31%) were living in poverty in the UK, and with the cost of living about to rise dramatically, that...
Newham

Mixed Olympic Legacy For East Ham

Pierrette Simuene -
Since the Olympic Games, Stratford has changed so much, with the opening of Stratford Westfield. This helped bring more jobs to the community and...
Home

Barking & Dagenham Locals Question Development Masterplans

Nadrine Narku -
Local residents are expressing strong concerns at the council’s “transformation masterplan” for remaking the industrial estate in Chadwell Heath with worries that housing cost...
Housing

Gentrification: The Good, The Bad And The Sad

Renice Morgan -
It is no secret that as we go about our day-to-day activities manoeuvring through the streets of London, we are often blindsided by the...
Housing

The Curse Of Empty Council Housing

Zuleica Rodriguez -
Zuleica Rodriguez reports from East London on the irony of empty council blocks in a borough where around 30,000 people are waiting to be...
Housing

A Conversation With Alex

Will Vincent -
More than 10,000 people currently sleep rough on the streets of London over the course of a year. Their stories are many and varied...
Housing
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Stratford Cladding Nightmare

Maria Ebaco -
Maria Ebaco reports from the East Village in Stratford
Housing

No Shortage Of Humour During Water Shortage

Maimouna Sow -
The entrepreneurial response to a water outage in East London last weeks shows that COVID has not crushed our spirit. Thames Water has was forced...
Health & Wellbeing

Posts From The Pandemic No 26: Universities Adding To Student Stress

Jordan Jones -
How would you feel if you were asked to continue paying rent for student accommodation which you'd already left? Even worse, if the people...
Housing

East London House Price Uncertainty

Francesca Battaglia -
According to the Evening Standard (ES) house prices in East London have risen 37 per cent in the past five years, compared to only...
Housing

Crisis In Young Women’s Housing

Jordan Jones -
The Young Women’s Trust, a feminist organisation aiming for economic and social equality for women, is setting out to tackle the ongoing crisis in...
Housing

How (NOT) To Tackle Homelessness

Zuleica Rodriguez -
Esther Sample, who works for The Young Women’s Trust, conducted a research project on how to prevent young women’s homelessness based on housing models...
Society

Negative Equity Is Not What I Paid For

Zuleica Rodriguez -
  In 2017, I purchased a modern two-bedroom flat in Essex with a staggering value of £400,000. Sadly, the value of the property has now...
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