Lambeth council tenants ‘in precarious position’ after 350% service charge rise
Price hikes of up to £300 a month for communal heating and hot water driven by rapid increase in energy costs UK households with communal heating facing 350% rise in energy costs Peter Shapcott is sitting in his council flat in Brixton, south London. As he examines the bills that have come out of his […]
Jeremy Hunt has left the UK to rot in poverty. So we must take matters into our own hands | Gordon Brown
With hygiene banks now joining food banks and clothes banks, I’m calling on retailers to take drastic action and help their poorest customers Poverty will last until doomsday if this Conservative government is all that confronts it. The so-called “budget for growth”, more accurately titled the “budget for growth in poverty”, has done nothing for […]
Food banks supported 800,000 UK children in 2021-22, data shows
One-fifth of UK population was in relative poverty after first year of pandemic, when support measures scrapped Families including 800,000 children were forced to turn to food banks to feed themselves as poverty levels started to rise again after the first year of the pandemic, the first official figures on UK food bank use show. […]
Quarter of UK households regularly run out of money for essentials, survey says
Charities find nearly 40% of people end the month with no money, and 67% say UK government not doing enough about crisis One in four households regularly run out of money for essentials and voters do not believe the government is doing enough to help, a group of charities have said. Nearly 40% of people […]
Rats, mould, damp: one woman’s story reveals the ugly truth about the UK’s biggest housing association | Aditya Chakrabortty
A mother of three’s struggle with Clarion reflects a system rigged to favour asset-owners while renters are abandoned You will read the grim facts about Chanel Sultan’s life in a minute, but first let’s talk about her dreams. Like the law degree she has just started, or her hope to buy her own home. Like […]