All news on the topic: Housing

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Woman lives in cow shed because she can't afford rent despite working full time
Beata, who is in her 50s, had been living in a mobile home before her landlord went into mortgage arrears and the site was repossessed earlier this year
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UK's top 10 happiest places to live - see if your town made the list
Richmond upon Thames bagged the top spot in this year's Happy Home Index but you can also see where your town or city ranked in the survey of more than 26,000 people
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Last family living on derelict street refuse to leave home in council dispute
Demonique Wilson and his wife Thabo are locked in a dispute with Salford town hall bosses over the value of their house which is set to be demolished to make way for a £250million regeneration project
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Man flattening £500,000 lockdown 'monster mansion' after neighbour war
Gurwinder Singh spent £200,000 to build the four-bedroom house in the West Midlands, with its value now estimated at around half a million pounds - but he didn't have planning permission and Walsall Council ordered him to tear it down
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Horror as baby in pram falls and traps mum and toddler in 'icy death trap'
Dionne Hogg and her young children narrowly escaped serious injury after the incident on a housing estate in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, on Monday morning
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Builders arrive at 'wrong house' and renovate kitchen after door unlocked
Chloe Fountain had no plans to renovate her home so was more than a little surprised when she came home from shopping to find builders carrying out a major project on her house
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Couple planted Xmas tree outside house in 1978 – and now it's a major attraction
Avril and Christopher Rowlands planted their £6 fir outside their home in Inkberrow, Worcestershire, back in 1978 - it now stands 50ft tall and has become a festive attraction
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Daredevil tumbles off tightrope stretched between tower blocks 200ft in the air
Chilling footage shows a group of brave wire walkers crossing a tightrope hung between two tower blocks in Belo Horizonte in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais
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Woman who moved into RV on course to become millionaire by 45
Carly DeFelice shared that her annual cost-of-living is $25,000, which is apparently "super low" as she has no debt, and uses the remainder of her salary to invest and save
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Man given months to live 'trapped on 10th floor of tower block with broken lift'
Neil Barnes, 69, has been told he could be dead in under a year due his bowel cancer spreading - but the only lift in the Cardiff tower block he lives in is broken, meaning he is trapped in his flat
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Squatter who claimed ownership of pensioner's home for free sells up for £540k
Builder Keith Best noticed the three-bedroom property in Newbury Park, Ilford, north east London, appeared to be vacant before carrying out renovation work and moving his family in
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Driver wins legal battle after measuring council parking signs with tape measure
A county court judgement ruled the order for Chris Burton to pay his ticket should be "revoked" after he submitted pages of evidence - including the size of the signs
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'Entitled neighbour demanded I move car for pregnant woman - so I got revenge'
A wheelchair-bound woman has been left visibly shaken after her neighbour aggressively told her to move her car so her pregnant friend could park 'closer to the house'
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Family's disgust as sewage spews across home soaking children's school uniform
Tammy Samuel said she went through 'a nightmare' after 'everyone’s poo and urine' flowed into her home, leaving her 'depressed' due to the cost of replacing her family's possessions
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Tories fail to hit election manifesto promise to build 300,000 new homes - again
The Tories promised to build 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s. But the target has never been met and there have been warnings the number could plummet next year
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Millionaires fined £150K after poisoning oak trees in bitter neighbour dispute
Arthur Bond and his wife Amelia have been ordered to pay a huge fine to Lisa Gorman after Mrs Bond used a chemical which poisoned two oak trees on her neighbour's land
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Tiny London flat for £800 a month is so cosy you can shower in the bedroom
London renters are being offered the flat above the former George IV in Kentish Town for £800 a month - but there's no bed and you'll have to share a toilet with five other tenants
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Hospital car park 'chaos' forces staff to arrive at work an hour before shift
Staff at North Devon District Hospital said they need to arrive up to one hour early to park their cars - and some even received a parking ticket as they could not find a spot
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'Friend stopped letting me in her home for tea - when I saw why I was horrified'
Janet Reynolds, 44, had been meeting her former colleague every week for twenty years - but the elderly lady suddenly stopped inviting her round as her bungalow became infested with mould and rats
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Sadiq Khan blasts Tory housebuilding 'hot air' with London approvals on rise
New analysis released today reveals that new home approvals are up 8% in London since 2016 while they are down 14% in the rest of England
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Family went from having 12 houses and a Porsche to nothing in two weeks
The high-living Liverpool family moved to Australia after losing almost everything in the global financial crisis. From living a life of luxury to having nothing, they had to reevaluate their whole lives
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'Our kids can't bear to go in their dead brother's room - we need to move'
Mohamed Mao, 49, and Heyfa Akubar, 43, from Woolwich, southeast London, lost their youngest son Mustafa Ahmed, eight, in a horror motorbike crash on in February
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Best places to live in the UK from rural villages to coastal enclaves - see list
The best places to live in the UK change every year, but generally rely on a tranquil setting, a variety of amenities, and public transport accessibility. Here's the full list of 2024's loveliest villages, towns and cities
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'I want to shut neighbour's business, customers keep taking my parking spaces'
Parking's always an issue when private spaces are involved, but when a neighbour's business resulted in paid-for spaces being taken by clients, one man decided to ask social media if he should get rid of the business, rather than the immediate problem
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Family-of-eight 'being forced out of home' so Church of England owner can sell
The Woodier family have been living in the former vicarage of St Oswald’s Church on Lancaster Road, Knott-End-on-Sea for six years but at the end of September they were given notice to vacate