Houses simply unaffordable for first-time buyers

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

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

New law bans ‘revenge’ evictions

UNISON welcomes new law which aims to protect renters

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Speaking out on rent

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

Article on the UNISON National site.

Securing the future of our public services

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

Article on the UNISON National site.

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

Article on the UNISON National site.

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

Article on the UNISON National site.

Making ends meet: a nurse in London

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

Magazine on the UNISON National site.

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

Article on the UNISON National site.

Time to stop talking in conferences

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

Article on the UNISON National site.

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

Article on the UNISON National site.