New ‘right to buy’ will worsen housing crisis

UNISON warns that extending right-to-buy to housing association tenants will mean even fewer affordable social homes to rent and worsen the housing crisis

How the new government can fix the housing crisis

UNISON backs wide-ranging proposals that will give families, the young and low-paid a chance of a decent home

UNISON highlights the urgent need for more homes

UNISON calls on the government to start an urgent programme of building affordable homes and social housing that people on low incomes can afford

UNISON calls for action as newspaper reveals scale of London ‘social cleansing’

UNISON is calling for action to help people in rented accomodation, as the Independent reveals 50,000 families have been forced out of their London homes by welfare reforms and rising rents

Government fails to ensure right to adequate housing, says new report

New report from Just Fair Consortium highlights concerns over housing

Houses simply unaffordable for first-time buyers

New Shelter report shows scale of housing problem facing first-time buyers in every region of England

New law bans ‘revenge’ evictions

UNISON welcomes new law which aims to protect renters

Speaking out on rent

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

Securing the future of our public services

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

Campaign to protect homeless services launched in Notts

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

Urgent government action needed to address housing crisis

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

Making ends meet: a nurse in London

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

More and more pay the cost of private renting

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

Time to stop talking in conferences

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

UNISON urges members to lobby their MPs over new ‘gagging law’

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