This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society sets out how the government can address poor-quality housing in the social and private rented sector. Our home is supposed to be a place of safety and security. But for nearly 1.5 million households who rent in England, this is not the case. More than 800,000...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society looks at the role of social security in alleviating pensioner poverty. Over the past decade, pensioner poverty has been rising. By the government’s standard income-based poverty measure, the poverty rate increased from 14 per cent in 2010-11 to 16 per cent in 2022-23, which means there...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society examines the role of social security in alleviating pensioner poverty. Over the past decade, pensioner poverty has been rising. By the government’s standard income-based poverty measure, the poverty rate increased from 14 per cent in 2010-11 to 16 per cent in 2022-23, which means there were...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society discusses putting culture and creativity at the heart of national renewal. The Fabian Society’s Arts and Creative Industries unit was set up in November 2023 to develop bold new ideas for culture policy inspired by progressive values. This pamphlet draws together some of the unit’s most...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society looks at why we must act now to remake our housing market. Our ‘property-owning democracy’ is no longer working. The home ownership rate in England peaked in 2003 at 71 per cent of households; today, the private housing markets for both sale and rent are so...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society looks at raising productivity by powering up investment, work and institution The UK needs productivity growth to improve living standards. Without productivity growth, we will be economically vulnerable to recessions or stagnation, and we will likely see widening inequality, lower incomes, a smaller tax base, and,...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society sets out how the UK can address the poverty premium and make markets work for low-income families. The recent cost-of-living crisis and fall in living standards has been unprecedented in living memory. And while the rate of inflation may have fallen, families are still struggling to...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society presents a strategy to tackle poverty before state pension age. People usually associate the years before state pension age with affluence, not poverty. But the UK is facing a hidden poverty crisis among 60 to 65-year-olds. A quarter of people aged 60 to 65 live in...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society offers policy options for carers' employment and financial protection. Carers make a massive contribution to society which all too often goes unrecognised, unsupported and unrewarded. The value of unpaid care has been estimated as almost equivalent to a second NHS, yet 44 per cent of working-age...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society looks at Labour's key battlegrounds at the next election. A new Fabian Society and YouGov survey shows Labour leading the Conservatives by 24 percentage points nationally. Even more concerning for the Tories, a sub-sample shows Labour leading by 34 percentage points in 150 marginal seats identified...