Katharine Swindells

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

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

Sam Crawford battled for years to get her home adapted for her disabled child. What can the wider housing sector learn from her struggle? Katharine Swindells reports

In 2017, Leadership 2025 was founded to support minority ethnic senior professionals to become sector leaders. As it reaches its target year, Katharine Swindells finds out what is next for the organisation

Development director Setareh Neshati speaks to Katharine Swindells about maximising affordable housing in one of London’s most expensive boroughs

Inside Housing’s latest quarterly update to its live data dashboard reveals the numbers of households with children aged under five living in temporary accommodation and B&Bs