Housing officers need better training or even specialist anti-hoarding teams to deal with hoarders – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. From environmental health and fire ...

"But it's not a lifestyle choice, it's a mental health issue." Hoarding was recognised as a complex mental health condition ...

Hoarding is not simply a case of homeowners or tenants who are reluctant to declutter. It’s a mental illness known as ‘ hoarding disorder ’ and affects between 2.5% and 6% of the UK population, ...

Hoarding in the UK has become a "mental health emergency" which requires an urgent response, a leading social enterprise has warned. Clouds End CIC has been supporting more than 300 people who hoard ...

Specialist recruitment business, Robert Half, has warned that Labour hoarding is gripping the UK as employers increasingly seek to retain staff in light of continued uncertainty in the economy and ...

Hoarders with huge amounts of junk stashed in their homes are at risk being killed in an inferno if it catches alight, a fire brigade warned. More than 1,000 fires linked to hoarding have left 10 ...

EXPERTS have created a ‘clutter scale’ of pictures showing rooms in increasing states of mess to help people decide if they have a hoarding problem. The images show a kitchen, living room and bedroom ...

It's the beloved show that sees experts track down potentially life-changing treasure and now Channel's 4's Millionaire Hoarders is back for a feel-good second series. The decluttering show will once ...

Scrolling my phone’s camera roll, I come across a two-second video of the living room floor, taken by accident. You’d think I’d instantly delete it without a second thought. Yet, I can’t quite bear to ...

According to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), hoarding disorder is described as a pattern of compulsive behaviour involving accumulating ...