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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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21 Dec 18
The total number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales has shot up by almost a quarter over the last five years, official data has shown.
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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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10 Dec 18
Councils will be expected to publish official plans to tackle rough sleeping and homelessness by winter 2019, the government has announced.
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30 Nov 18
Councils are failing to use their power to crack down on ‘rogue landlords’, a membership organisation has found.
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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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8 Nov 18
Second homeowners who declare their properties as ‘holiday lets’ may be required to pay council tax following a government consultation.
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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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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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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...
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19 Sep 18
Funding to build more housing should go to councils – not just housing associations – and must be made available now, council leaders have urged.
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30 Aug 18
The government must end the freeze on private rent housing benefits to help low income tenants cover their rent, a housing group has urged.
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21 Aug 18
Allowing councils to buy agricultural land at ‘fair market value’ could ease the housing crisis, housing groups and think-tanks have said.
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21 Aug 18
The long-awaited social housing green paper, published last week, pledged to support local authorities to build more. But the Chartered Institute of Housing’s David Pipe says it did not go far...
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17 Aug 18
The government has launched a pilot allowing housing association tenants to buy their social homes.
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14 Aug 18
The government has come under fire from campaign groups for failing to commit new funding to boost social housing, in its long-awaited green paper released today.
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13 Aug 18
A £100m homelessness strategy to help end rough sleeping in the UK by 2027 has been announced by the government.
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3 Aug 18
Rents in England have risen 60% faster than wages since 2011, a housing charity has said.
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.
21 Dec 18The total number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales has shot up by almost a quarter over the last five years, official data has shown.
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...
10 Dec 18Councils 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.
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.
8 Nov 18Second homeowners who declare their properties as ‘holiday lets’ may be required to pay council tax following a government consultation.
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.
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.
30 Aug 18The government must end the freeze on private rent housing benefits to help low income tenants cover their rent, a housing group has urged.
21 Aug 18Allowing councils to buy agricultural land at ‘fair market value’ could ease the housing crisis, housing groups and think-tanks have said.
21 Aug 18The long-awaited social housing green paper, published last week, pledged to support local authorities to build more. But the Chartered Institute of Housing’s David Pipe says it did not go far...
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