Katharine Swindells

In 1920, Women’s Pioneer Housing was founded to increase housing supply for single women. Katharine Swindells speaks to retiring development director Sue Hockett about how two new developments this year harken back to the organisation’s original suffragist mission

Inside Housing has analysed £8bn of tender documents to find out how the nation’s landlords are responding to new regulations on damp and mould. Katharine Swindells reports

No one knows how many children in temporary accommodation are neurodivergent. Katharine Swindells talks to families who are struggling to cope, and considers whether councils should be taking a different approach

Paula Barker spent less than a year as shadow homelessness minister before Labour came to power. Now she is advocating for homelessness from the back benches. Katharine Swindells meets her in Westminster

It has been a big year for both the housing sector and Inside Housing. Katharine Swindells runs through the biggest stories that defined 2025

Inside Housing analysed 76 domestic homicide reviews to pull out the crucial lessons for housing teams. Katharine Swindells reports

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has first-hand experience of going through a domestic homicide review after the death of one of its tenants. What did it learn? Katharine Swindells reports

The Domestic Homicide Timeline can give housing professionals a template to understand how domestic abuse and coercive control progress to homicide, and how housing can intervene