The housing crisis in the UK is a long-standing issue that has stretched back decades, with a backlog of more than 4.3 million homes, according to the British think tank Centre for Cities. To get started on catching up with the huge backlog, councils, and housing associations must speed up the process of re-homing people and concentrate on building more homes.

Since at least the early 1980s, household debt-to-income ratios have been increasing dramatically.

The Bank of England warned on Tuesday about "significant pressure" on households and businesses due to higher inflation and borrowing costs, but said they were more resilient than before the global financial crisis.

The Bank of England has in less than a year hiked its interest rate to 2.25 percent from a record-low 0.1 percent in a bid to cool decades-high inflation.

Liz Truss's government is following an economic doctrine which argues that richer people are more likely to invest, set up businesses, hire people and grow the economy.

The 13% rally in the S&P 500 from its June lows will soon run into what has historically been the toughest month for the U.S.

Saving the high street: three ways community businesses can kickstart a revival

The Bank of England has raised its benchmark rate from 0.1% to 1.75%, whereas until the financial crisis of 2008 it ranged from 5% to 15%.

Investing in alternative assets could offer portfolio protection from uncertain and volatile markets.

Access to green and open space is urgently needed in central Manchester.

The UK housing market downturn that started in the 1980s saw prices fall in absolute terms for the first (recorded) time, and this continued until 1994.

Standing by his swimming pool at his home in an affluent Madrid suburb, retired engineer Juan Manuel Cosmes Cuesta enthuses over the 30% state subsidy he will get for installing solar panels that have already more than halved his monthly power bills.

With fuel poverty rising, few would argue that the current position should be left as it is, but we do not think cutting fuel duty is the answer.

Unsurprisingly, the pandemic has also had a huge impact on the basket in recent years. In addition to antibacterial wipes, the 2022 basket refresh ditched suits, a longtime staple of the working wardrobe.

The Grenfell Tower memorial commission represents three main communities: bereaved family members; survivors of the fire; and residents of the Lancaster West Estate, in which the tower stands.

The fundamental housing issue in the UK is a chronic undersupply of properties for the country's expanding population.

The Nazi authorities wanted to consign the village to oblivion, where all the threads of individual and community life would be made to disappear without a trace.

NIESR cut its UK growth forecast for 2022 to 3.5% from 4.8%, and downgraded its 2023 forecast to 0.8% from 1.3%

The solution is simple: for the UK to follow other countries in giving businesses both the power to quickly and directly recruit the workers they need from abroad, and the responsibility for providing them with housing, healthcare and schooling for their children.

The Oxford Economics analysts said the pandemic unemployment benefits may be a factor limiting labor supply.

Around 2,000 Amazon employees will benefit from the $2 billion Housing Equity Fund that the company is providing.

The two-day event concludes amid a renewed push by a top lawmaker in Washington to agree on an additional spending bill to prop up the economy.

Prices rose in June lifted by more expensive gas, car insurance, and higher rent.

Theresa May will set out details of the government's landmark review of higher education funding in England, and may announce reduced tuition fees.

Rebecca Walker, from Leeds, has been jailed for 21 months for illegally claiming £176,000 in tax credits, carers' and disability allowances to fund 'luxuries'.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed to fresh talks to form a new government in a bid to end the political crisis in Europe's largest economy.

A report predicts millennials will enjoy the biggest and most wide-reaching inheritance boom of any post-war generation, but that it still won't be enough to even out inequality.

Policymakers must stop pretending they can fix broken markets with more and more regulation.

After Chancellor Philip Hammond announced that stamp duty will be abolished for most first-time buyers, young people reacted with mixed feelings.

Chancellor abolishes Stamp Duty for all first time buyer purchases up to £300,000 as part of housing reforms.