Breaking the chains
Why five years of captivity in Beirut made me want to help homeless people get back into the community and into work. By Terry Waite For current information, see further research. For current information, see further information.
Red, white and blues
Billy Bragg on why his home town became the front line in the fight against racial intolerance
Watch this space
Ashley Horsey on the threats to a breakthrough in affordable housing finance
No more nice guy
In the third of a series of articles on the housing market, Peter Williams charts the transition from the NICE to the VILE decade
Fixing a hole
Whose rent surpluses are they anyway? David Hall on the review of the housing revenue account
Forget me not
Jacky Peacock on why the real victims of the recession are those in the greatest housing need
Cinderella sector
The introduction of security of tenure for four years has made the private rented sector in Ireland one of the most enlightened in Europe, says Aideen Hayden
Self help
All of us need more active involvement in the fight against crime, says Dominic Grieve
Lost leader
Caroline Flint steps out of the firing line
Party time
Westminster mole, ROOF’s parliamentary correspondent reports
My hole and I
Fiction writer Tibor Fischer says a lack of action by his local council has become a rich source of inspiration
Taking a tumble
The current crisis has proved that total reliance on the market to deliver social housing is wrong, argues Peter Malpass
Inside job
Policies that make it harder for ex-prisoners to get stable housing will increase reoffending rates and generate more homelessness, says Tim Bell
