In May 2017, Sophie Bichener did what many in their twenties are unable to do: buy a home. She paid around £230,000 (around $295,000 at the time) for her two-bedroom apartment in a high-rise building ...

People living in dangerous homes say the “strain has never been greater” during the pandemic as official figures show 313 high rises are still covered in the material blamed for the spread of the ...

Dangerous Grenfell Tower-style cladding has been removed from just 15% of high-rise buildings identified by the government in the aftermath of the disaster, official figures show. Only 67 of 437 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Councils and low-cost housing providers say they could build more than 90,000 additional affordable homes over ...

UK government sets cladding removal deadlineThe UK government has set out plans for a new law that would set a deadline for building owners to fix unsafe cladding. UK government sets cladding removal ...

LONDON — Britain has ordered housebuilders to pay around $5.4 billion to help remove dangerous cladding from buildings following a deadly 2017 London fire that left government, developers and owners ...