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UNISON welcomes new law which aims to protect renters

Rent Freedom Day offers UNISON members – and particularly young members – an opportunity to have their voice heard

UNISON manifesto sets out the challenges facing public services and policies needed to meet them

Speak out now against county council plans to axe homelessness funding descrbed as cruel and short-sighted

Private sector rents and waiting lists for social housing will spiral out of control unless the government commits to building affordable housing

Young nurse Helen Oliver on the ‘culture clash’ of London’s living costs

We need housing to be a political priority rather something left to a market that does not deliver or ordinary people on ordinary incomes

Carolan tells delegates to make sure they take the message out beyond the conference hall to voters

New law threatens to gag charities, NGOs, blogs, think-tanks, trade unions and other campaigning organisations by severely restricting how much money they can spend on political campaigning in the year running up to a general election

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New report warns that wealth of private landlords is stopping first-time buyers getting onto the property ladder and calls for cap on buy-to-let mortgage lending

The Labour Party has published proposals on the private rented sector, which calls for greater regulation of landlords.

The government has made a series of announcements on housing in the recent Spending Review, including £3.3bn over three years to continue the affordable homes programme

‘There is a desperate housing shortage, and no good reason for it’

UNISON’s national delegate conference meets in Liverpool next week to set the union’s priorities for the year ahead