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17 Mar 20
The government has promised to ‘level up’ disparities in income growth across the UK, but is regeneration the right way forward?
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26 Feb 20
Natalie Elphicke has been appointed parliamentary private secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
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19 Feb 20
Council leaders have called for greater compulsory purchase powers after analysis showed less than 60% of granted planning permissions have been completed since 2009-10.
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10 Feb 20
The extra Treasury cash raised via the Public Work Loans Board 1% rate rise should be handed back to local government, council leaders have suggested.
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30 Jan 20
Councils will be urged to fast-track planning applications for “beautiful” buildings, under new plans outlined by the communities secretary.
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28 Jan 20
Nearly 70% of councils in England spent more than planned on homelessness support last year due to shortages of affordable housing and insufficient housing benefits, according to analysis.
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17 Jan 20
There are still 91 social housing buildings covered in Grenfell-style ACM cladding over two years after the tragedy, official figures have shown.
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3 Jan 20
The government’s £4m package to help councils tackle rogue landlords in England is “nowhere near enough”, according to a membership group for private landlords.
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19 Dec 19
Councils must be given greater flexibilities to allow them produce more houses and end the housing crisis, writes Gavin Smart, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing.
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18 Dec 19
The number of households assessed by local authorities as either homeless or threatened with homelessness has increased by 11.4% over the past year, official figures have shown.
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12 Dec 19
The number of homeless people in England attending A&E departments has more than trebled in the last eight years, figures have shown.
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4 Dec 19
Campaigners have warned that a Grenfell-like tragedy will happen again as government efforts to remove dangerous cladding have failed.
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3 Dec 19
There are 135,000 homeless children in Britain - the highest number in over a decade, according to analysis by the homeless charity Shelter.
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28 Nov 19
The Liberal Democrats have vowed to end rough sleeping within five years by placing a duty on councils to provide emergency accommodation.
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8 Nov 19
A government initiative to build 200,000 homes for first time buyers has failed to produce a single home since it was announced in 2015, the National Audit Office has found.
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7 Oct 19
Constraints on council housebuilding remain despite policies aimed at boosting housing supply, the Chartered Institute of Housing has said.
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1 Oct 19
The housing crisis is one of the UK’s biggest domestic policy issues, delegates at a Conservative conference fringe have heard.
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26 Sep 19
Housing should be considered infrastructure along with roads and rail to help solve the shortfall in UK homes, a housing association director has told the Labour conference.
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26 Sep 19
Political consensus to tackle the housing crisis is needed but is at an early stage, a conference has heard.
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23 Sep 19
The UK must invest £128bn over the next decade to fix the housing crisis, according to research.
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17 Sep 19
Lib Dem spokesperson for housing Tim Farron has said charity Shelter’s proposals to build 3.1 million homes over the next 20 years were “ambitious, but we should do it”.
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16 Sep 19
Housing minister Esther McVey has committed £2m to help local authorities ‘crack down on illegal developments’ on green belt land.
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13 Sep 19
The number of homeless households in England rose 11% between the last quarter of 2018 and the first three months of this year, government figures have revealed.
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6 Sep 19
The government is looking for an organisation to run pilots to help it improve local authority data collection on homelessness.
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26 Aug 19
Westminster must reform the Right to Buy and allow councils to keep all the receipts from homes sold under the scheme, the Local Government Association has said.
17 Mar 20The government has promised to ‘level up’ disparities in income growth across the UK, but is regeneration the right way forward?
26 Feb 20Natalie Elphicke has been appointed parliamentary private secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
19 Feb 20Council leaders have called for greater compulsory purchase powers after analysis showed less than 60% of granted planning permissions have been completed since 2009-10.
10 Feb 20The extra Treasury cash raised via the Public Work Loans Board 1% rate rise should be handed back to local government, council leaders have suggested.
28 Jan 20Nearly 70% of councils in England spent more than planned on homelessness support last year due to shortages of affordable housing and insufficient housing benefits, according to analysis.
17 Jan 20There are still 91 social housing buildings covered in Grenfell-style ACM cladding over two years after the tragedy, official figures have shown.
3 Jan 20The government’s £4m package to help councils tackle rogue landlords in England is “nowhere near enough”, according to a membership group for private landlords.
19 Dec 19Councils must be given greater flexibilities to allow them produce more houses and end the housing crisis, writes Gavin Smart, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing.
18 Dec 19The number of households assessed by local authorities as either homeless or threatened with homelessness has increased by 11.4% over the past year, official figures have shown.
4 Dec 19Campaigners have warned that a Grenfell-like tragedy will happen again as government efforts to remove dangerous cladding have failed.
3 Dec 19There are 135,000 homeless children in Britain - the highest number in over a decade, according to analysis by the homeless charity Shelter.
28 Nov 19The Liberal Democrats have vowed to end rough sleeping within five years by placing a duty on councils to provide emergency accommodation.
8 Nov 19A government initiative to build 200,000 homes for first time buyers has failed to produce a single home since it was announced in 2015, the National Audit Office has found.
17 Sep 19Lib Dem spokesperson for housing Tim Farron has said charity Shelter’s proposals to build 3.1 million homes over the next 20 years were “ambitious, but we should do it”.
16 Sep 19Housing minister Esther McVey has committed £2m to help local authorities ‘crack down on illegal developments’ on green belt land.
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