Nick Hedges: ‘The tenants and residents of these dreadful housing conditions were literally trapped. They’d explored every avenue and still couldn’t escape’ ​Nick Hedges, the ...

Coventry is a city ever evolving. Going back almost a thousand years it's been at the forefront of important industries - quaint historical artisan professions like watchmaking and ribbon weaving and ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

A century ago, overcrowding, slum landlords, and impossible rents forced the British government to build housing on a scale ...