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Spacious and green: inside Norwich’s award-winning new council houses

By Anne workforce / October 12, 2019

For residents of eco-friendly Goldsmith Street, heating bills could be as little as £150 a year After two years living in a third-floor flat in Norwich, Alex Jenkins, her partner and two young sons moved into a new council house in December. They are not alone in their adoration for their home, with its two […]

The private renters trapped in Britain’s new slums

By Anne workforce / May 2, 2019

Years of austerity have driven the poorest into squalid, crumbling homes. Can this cycle be broken? The stark human cost of Britain’s decade-long austerity drive, welfare reforms and warped housing priorities can be glimpsed in 11 decaying flats carved from what was once a grand Victorian terrace home in Weston-super-Mare. These bay-fronted houses were most […]