The prime minister has announced an extra £236m of funding as official figures show rough sleeping in England has fallen by 9% in a year but remains 141% higher than a decade ago.
More than 13,500 affordable homes have been lost in the last four years due to planning rules which allow offices to be converted into housing without planning permission, council leaders have...
The government must refocus its housebuilding spend on affordable homes and suspend the right to buy scheme, according to the Chartered Institute for Housing.
Pilot areas for an “internationally proven approach” to helping rough sleepers with complex needs into stable accommodation have been named by the housing secretary.
The next government must give councils cash to build homes and stop developers using the planning system to get out of building affordable homes, a rural charity has said.
The government’s housing white paper marks a policy shift from home ownership to renting and a rehabilitation for housing associations. Yet how much has really changed?
Housing providers are being invited to bid for a share of a £7bn fund in what is being billed as a “dramatic expansion” of the government’s affordable housing programme.
Philip Hammond has pledged a real terms doubling of the government’s annual spending on housing through a £2.3bn fund unveiled in the Autumn Statement today.
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.
Councils should be reinstated as major builders of affordable housing to assuage the deepening housing crisis, a report by the Local Government Association has argued.
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.
Developments of 10 homes or more will need to ensure one-fifth of properties are allocated to the flagship government housing scheme for first-time buyers, housing minister Brandon Lewis has said.
Properties built through the government’s flagship Starter Home programme will be out of reach for those most in need of affordable homes in two-thirds of council areas, research for local...
Prime minister David Cameron has today said the government is delivering on pre-election pledges across housing, childcare and education as he announced the creation of a new public sector...
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...
Programmes run by the government’s Homes and Communities Agency supported the construction of nearly 180,000 affordable homes in the four years to the end of March 2015, it has been confirmed.
The outgoing chair of the communities and local government committee has expressed concern that funding for key government housing programmes is not being used.
