To build more homes, councils don’t need false limits and a Kafkaesque sting set by central government, writes Cllr Diarmaid Ward, Islington Council’s deputy leader.
The cost-of-living crisis has caused yet more social housing tenants to fall behind on their payments, with more than 80% of councils reporting a rise in arrears.
London boroughs have spent more than £150m over the past year to bring more than 1,500 homes back into the public sector, replacing stock depleted by the right-to-buy scheme, the city’s mayor has...
Proposals to expand the right-to-buy scheme to housing associations and earmark national infrastructure levy income for new social housing have sparked funding concerns among councils.
A London council has begun a ‘key amnesty’ aiming to reduce tenancy fraud, promising “no questions asked” of those who have been using council homes illegally.
