A new national rental database will make landlords and properties easier to identify. Jamaica already requires rented premises to be registered, but the information remains far less visible.

Tenants at the NHC’s Grotto complex in St Michael, Barbados, say sewage overflows and unrepaired leaks persist despite a ministerial promise of urgent action in April.

New research from Crisis and Citizens Advice has found that fewer than two in every hundred private rental properties listed in Britain are now affordable for people receiving housing benefit. With more than 100 renters a day seeking help, foodbank referrals up 80%, and the October Budget approaching as the last realistic opportunity to act, the findings expose a structural failure in the link between state support and the real cost of housing. The dynamics have direct resonance for Jamaica, where no equivalent support mechanism exists and where the gap between working incomes and housing costs is quietly widening.

Two former property officers of Goa’s Catholic archdiocese face trial over the 2007 sale of 2,479 square metres, with prosecutors alleging forged documents and a tenant family deprived of its rights.

Hard seasons test every relationship, including the one between landlord and tenant. A reflection on Romans 5, endurance and character when rent, repairs and hardship collide.

Jamaica’s rental market is already testing the limits of what many working households can afford, raising an uncomfortable question for housing policy:…

Few things feel as precarious as hunting for a place to rent in a tight market. Scripture’s promise that God goes before His people does not remove the search, but it changes how we walk into it.

A retired bus driver bought a small house to let at a low rent to families in need. Seven years on, he writes about what went right, what went wrong and why he would do it again.

Newlyweds who bought a house with a long-standing lodger still living in it ask how to handle the situation fairly, legally and kindly.

Every home project needs someone to say “that is not right”. How we say it decides whether the work improves or the relationship breaks. An essay on gentle, honest correction under one roof.