Rent in Islington rose 7% in the past year, new figures show.
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Rent in Islington rose 8% over the past year, new figures show.
Islington Council has welcomed the government’s pledge to nearly double spending on affordable housebuilding, while warning that costs and regulations have...
More landlords applied to court for possession orders to remove tenants refusing to follow eviction orders in Islington, new figures show.
A council-backed group of Islington locals have agreed a slew of priorities to drive the borough’s approach to the climate crisis.
Homeless children are in some cases spending their entire childhoods in temporary accommodation across London, and are even living alongside pensioners well...
Housing campaigners stormed an Islington Council ceremony last week as they demanded action over disrepair and community safety.
London’s boroughs are being forced to cut their spending on council housing by a total of £264m over the next three years, according to a new analysis.
Sir Sadiq Khan has revealed further details of his plan to build homes on parts of London’s green belt – and has explained what drove him to take the decision.
The soaring cost of land in the capital is causing taller buildings to sprout up across the city, the London Assembly has found, as developers find they need...
There were more children in Islington living in short-term housing last year, new figures show.
Islington Council has clawed back hundreds of thousands of pounds cheated from the local authority by social housing swindlers, the Town Hall’s leader has...
The staggering cost of getting homes built in London compared with other parts of England has been laid bare in new research by a leading think tank.
On 23rd April, Islington Council issued a statement declaring that, due to economic uncertainty and in response to strong community opposition, the...
London’s councils overspent on their homelessness budgets by at least £330m last year, as town halls warn that the escalating crisis is pushing them closer to...
Islington Council is set to walk back on a multi-million pound redevelopment project for one of its leisure centres, citing spiralling costs and locals’...
A trial which saw high-tech “damp and mould sensors” installed in homes across London has demonstrated that the technology could be scaled up to help tenants...
Families in Islington would have to wait over a decade for a suitable social home, new analysis shows.
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