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4 Mar 19
Central government has gone some way towards supporting the building of social rented homes but it needs to do much more, says Chartered Institute of Housing policy advisor John Perry.
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27 Feb 19
Housing associations, councils and the mayor of London have called on the government to hand over £5.2bn to protect housing in the capital against the impact of a no deal Brexit.
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19 Feb 19
Local authorities will be key to facilitating prison reforms by providing housing for ex-offenders, the justice secretary has said.
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7 Feb 19
The number of social rent homes in England has plummeted by 165,697 in just six years, analysis by a trade body has found. ...
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24 Jan 19
A group of seven benefit assessors from councils in London have been convicted of committing housing benefit fraud worth £1m across three councils.
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21 Jan 19
London councils are spending more than £22m each year renting back homes sold under right to buy, research has found.
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15 Jan 19
More than 50 councils will benefit from a £2.4m pot to crack down on rogue landlords, housing minister Heather Wheeler has announced.
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11 Jan 19
Former servicemen and women suffering from mental illnesses, such as post traumatic stress disorder, will be prioritised for social housing, under new proposals announced by the government.
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8 Jan 19
Up to 3.1 million new social homes must be built over the next 20 years to solve the housing crisis in England, an independent commission has found.
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2 Jan 19
London boroughs will receive a £38m boost to provide accommodation for families facing homelessness, the government has announced.
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18 Dec 18
Housing accountants must be careful about how they charge rents next year - a leap year - or they could find they lose out on income or break the rules, says the chair of CIPFA’s housing panel Ken...
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10 Dec 18
Councils will not be able to build the homes needed unless we also address how we train and expands the construction industry workforce, argues think-tank Localis’ Bethanie Roughley.
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28 Nov 18
Social housing sales outstripped the creation of new units in England by a factor of three to one last year, government figures revealed.
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16 Nov 18
A specialist housing court would speed up access to justice for landlords and tenant locked in disputes, the communities secretary has said.
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7 Nov 18
A PF snapshot survey has revealed 93% of councils across England are planning to borrow more against their housing revenue account now the cap has been lifted.
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29 Oct 18
Councils could generate up to £320bn for the wider economy in England and Wales over the next 50 years if they were given the investment in the Budget today for a “new generation” of social...
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22 Oct 18
Adopting international accounting standards would keep council house borrowing off the national debt and allow real fiscal autonomy, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s policy adviser John...
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19 Oct 18
Councils’ housing revenue account borrowing cap will be scrapped before the end of the month, the communities secretary has revealed.
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18 Oct 18
The first round of funding to remove Grenfell-style cladding has been released to local authorities and housing associations today.
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5 Oct 18
Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
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4 Oct 18
Right to buy is costing English councils £1bn - £300m net - a year and cutting the discounts could lead to an extra 12,000 homes being built every year, a trade body has said.
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3 Oct 18
The government has given a welcome boost to council borrowing for public purpose, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
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3 Oct 18
The cap on how much councils can borrow against their housing revenue account will be scrapped and austerity brought to an end, Theresa May announced in her speech to the Conservative Party...
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1 Oct 18
The government is to ban use of combustible materials for all new high-rise residential building, communities secretary James Brokenshire said today.
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27 Sep 18
Theresa May has pledged to hand £2bn to housing associations over the course of seven years from 2022. Jeremy Earnshaw, chief financial officer at housing association Your Housing Group, writes about...
4 Mar 19Central government has gone some way towards supporting the building of social rented homes but it needs to do much more, says Chartered Institute of Housing policy advisor John Perry.
27 Feb 19Housing associations, councils and the mayor of London have called on the government to hand over £5.2bn to protect housing in the capital against the impact of a no deal Brexit.
19 Feb 19Local authorities will be key to facilitating prison reforms by providing housing for ex-offenders, the justice secretary has said.
24 Jan 19A group of seven benefit assessors from councils in London have been convicted of committing housing benefit fraud worth £1m across three councils.
21 Jan 19London councils are spending more than £22m each year renting back homes sold under right to buy, research has found.
15 Jan 19More than 50 councils will benefit from a £2.4m pot to crack down on rogue landlords, housing minister Heather Wheeler has announced.
11 Jan 19Former servicemen and women suffering from mental illnesses, such as post traumatic stress disorder, will be prioritised for social housing, under new proposals announced by the government.
8 Jan 19Up to 3.1 million new social homes must be built over the next 20 years to solve the housing crisis in England, an independent commission has found.
2 Jan 19London boroughs will receive a £38m boost to provide accommodation for families facing homelessness, the government has announced.
18 Dec 18Housing accountants must be careful about how they charge rents next year - a leap year - or they could find they lose out on income or break the rules, says the chair of CIPFA’s housing panel Ken...
28 Nov 18Social housing sales outstripped the creation of new units in England by a factor of three to one last year, government figures revealed.
16 Nov 18A specialist housing court would speed up access to justice for landlords and tenant locked in disputes, the communities secretary has said.
22 Oct 18Adopting international accounting standards would keep council house borrowing off the national debt and allow real fiscal autonomy, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s policy adviser John...
18 Oct 18The first round of funding to remove Grenfell-style cladding has been released to local authorities and housing associations today.
5 Oct 18Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
4 Oct 18Right to buy is costing English councils £1bn - £300m net - a year and cutting the discounts could lead to an extra 12,000 homes being built every year, a trade body has said.
3 Oct 18The cap on how much councils can borrow against their housing revenue account will be scrapped and austerity brought to an end, Theresa May announced in her speech to the Conservative Party...
1 Oct 18The government is to ban use of combustible materials for all new high-rise residential building, communities secretary James Brokenshire said today.
