A design for life

One in a million

Each year thousands of high-risk offenders are released onto London’s streets to complete their sentences. Here, Lydia Stockdale talks to the man whose work to settle them back into the community won him last year’s Butler Bursary

Double standards

Behind the headlines

News stories about funding cuts to homelessness services are everywhere, but how are they affecting those at the sharp end? Rough sleeper Aibaihe gives the view from the street

Homeless granted shared room rate exemption

The government has granted some homeless people an exemption from controversial housing benefit changes.

‘Phantom beds’ for homeless people

A government scheme to provide accommodation for homeless people will only supply a third of the ‘extra’ beds ministers promised.

The mental health maze

Landlords seeking to evict tenants with mental disabilities must tread carefully, says Robert Wassall, head of the social housing sector group at Blake Lapthorn

Money matters

How do council housing heads and arm’s-length management organisation bosses fare in the salary stakes? Lydia Stockdale reveals the results of Inside Housing’s exclusive poll

It pays to recycle

A London council is rewarding tenants for recycling. Poppy McPherson finds out whether the celebrity-backed scheme is persuading people to be greener

Hands-on approach

A new breed of customer-focused housing officers is giving tenants a lot more satisfaction. Emily Rogers meets one of them

Digital age

In the last of this week’s Focus pieces on digital inclusion we take a look at work helping older people get online