It’s time to halt the merry-go-round of ministers and better resource local planning departments so we can focus on the country’s housing need, writes Jonathan Pearson.
Boris Johnson is “very excited” by the prospect of allowing people who live in housing association properties to buy their homes at a discounted price, in plans critics have called “hare-brained”.
Poorly maintained records of grants given out for affordable rented homes in Bristol meant data was unreliable, according to a highly critical report from the city council’s internal auditors.
Housing associations’ ability to build more homes to help solve the housing crisis is being hampered by centrally-imposed funding cuts, a real estate advisor has warned.
The government’s ambition to build one million homes does not go far enough to meet the country’s true housing need, a Public Accounts Committee report has stated.
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has indicated that the government will look to provide greater flexibility in how funding to support affordable homes can be used.
The first housing association tenants have exercised the right to buy their homes under the government’s extension of the scheme across the social housing sector.
Home ownership in England has fallen to a level last seen in 1986 thanks to rising housing costs and static wages, an analysis by the Resolution Foundation has found.
Cuts in public expenditure following a withdrawal by the UK from the European Union could result in 18,000 fewer affordable homes by 2020, Labour’s shadow housing secretary John Healey has claimed.
Housing association mergers can bring big benefits but are not always the right way to go. Here are some questions to think about before you start off down the merger path.
Communities secretary Greg Clark has insisted that the classification of housing associations as public bodies will not lead to the imposition of financial constraints on the sector. He said he had...
The Office for National Statistics has today classified housing associations as part of the public sector, leading to an estimated £60bn increase in public sector net debt.
Housing is a political priority for the government, but it is vital that ministers do not just focus on homes to buy. Boosting supply across all tenures can help people choose the right option for...
The government is to press ahead with plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to housing associations tenants, despite warnings that this would hurt the public finances.
Conservative plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to tenants in housing association properties would damage to the long-term health of the UK's public finances, the Institute for Fiscal...
One million housing association tenants currently excluded from the right to buy scheme should be given the opportunity to purchase their own home, according to a report published by the Institute...
