The government’s new-home pledge and prioritising of social housing is welcome news, but councils are facing a dire situation with massive housing revenue account deficits.
A cross-party coalition of more than 100 council landlords has warned that the council housing system in England is broken, with “urgent action” needed from the government if it is to deliver its...
The social rent cap and increased spending due to new legislation have created a “perfect storm” at the London Borough of Southwark, slowing housebuilding, a senior officer has said.
Nottingham City Council will terminate a contract with a subsidiary company managing its housing stock, after an external investigation found it misspent millions of pounds of authority funding.
An accounting blunder saw Nottingham City Council mistakenly credit almost £16m of housing funding to its general fund rather than its housing revenue account, it has emerged.
Councils borrowed £875m for housing projects in March from the Public Works Loan Board after the introduction of a special rate for housing revenue account projects in the Budget.
The government must remove the hurdles it has set down if it is serious about tackling the escalating housing crisis London is facing, writes Lewisham mayor Damien Egan.
Nearly all housing stock-owning councils in England plan to take advantage of the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap lift, analysis by the Local Government Association has revealed.
With developers and private landlords failing to provide enough suitable homes, councils are setting up housing companies to build homes of different tenures and costs
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.
The self-financing settlement offered to councils by government in order to increase council house construction has failed to live up to its promise, CIPFA and the Chartered Institute of Housing have...
Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to cut social housing rents by 1% in each of the next four years will cost local authorities a total of £2.6bn in lost revenue, a study by the Local...
Don’t judge all local authorities by the small minority that have misused their housing funds. Borrowing caps should still be removed to allow councils to provide appropriate accommodation for...
Some councils appear to be taking advantage of what they see as a loophole in the legislation regarding the Housing Revenue Account. But such attempts are not only morally wrong, they are legally...
