Nadine Yousif BBC News Reporting fromVancouver, British Columbia Eloise Alanna/BBC Vancouver has been labelled one of the most “impossibly unaffordable” cities in the world for housing Before Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and threatened its sovereignty, the Canadian psyche was consumed with another major issue: housing affordability. With an election on the horizon, voters...
Meghan Owen Work and Money Correspondent, BBC London BBC Lorraine Branch is one of the tenants battling the Peabody housing association “We’re treated like peasants. Like we’re not good enough to live in decent homes,” says Lorraine Branch, a tenant on the Nags Head Estate in east London. She is part of a group of...
Chloe Aslett BBC News, Yorkshire James Balston Ms Clark lived in the converted toilets for a while, but has had tenants since she moved to Scotland. Of all the bizarre items up for sale on Facebook marketplace, a “townhouse” with a price of £70,000 stands out as a particularly unusual listing – not least because...
A food bank in an east Devon town is set to stay at its base in a former boys’ school after the building is converted into three new homes. The Victorian gothic style-listed building on Ottery St Mary’s Yonder Street, will be refurbished as part of plans to create three apartments, according to the Local...
Firefighters are dealing with a fire involving two semi-detached thatched properties in north Devon. Devon and Somerset Fire Service said 12 fire crews were at the homes in Georgeham, with both roofs alight. People people living in the area are advised to keep their windows and doors closed due to the smoke. Road closures are...
Another 2,000 homes in Exeter are set to receive weekly food waste collections. The latest roll-out of kerbside collections will cover areas of Topsham, as plans to get the whole city involved continue to take shape. Currently around a third of Exeter – 22,000 properties – benefits from kerbside food waste collections and the service...