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Image of a mouse in someone's home. Councils spend £40m tackling rats, mice and bedbugs. Here’s what to do if you find your social housing home is infested

Ratflation - councils spend record amounts on infestations

Here’s what to do if it’s happening in your home

What should you do if your landlord won’t return your deposit

What are your deposit rights?

Some families face a 100+ year wait for social housing. Find out about the social housing crisis and where to turn to for help

Some families face a 100+ year wait for social housing

Find out about the social housing crisis and where to turn to for help

Do you know what’s in the renters’ rights bill?

Do you know what’s in the renters’ rights bill?

Government wants to offer more protections to renters.

Renters ‘paid nearly £81bn last year’

Renters ‘paid nearly £81bn last year’

Costs for average households up by more than £2,000 since 2023.

Social tenants to get stronger protections

Social tenants to get stronger protections

Government to act on Grenfell inquiry findings.

A set of keys exchanging hands outside a house.

No-fault evictions reach highest level since 2016

Over 32,000 households received section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions in 2024

A hand holds out a silver key with a silver house keyring.

Renters’ rights bill: need for effective enforcement

Councils will struggle, warns National Residential Landlords Association

A block of leasehold apartments

Average service charge for leasehold properties rises at over 4 times rate of inflation

The average cost hit £2,300 a year in 2024

Home repossessions rising, but fewer people falling behind with mortgages

Home repossessions rising, but fewer people falling behind with mortgages

Number of mortgage arrears fell at the end of 2024.