The government’s welfare reforms could be undermined by plans to finance the construction of 80,000 new affordable homes through higher rents on the properties, the Public Accounts Committee warned...
Affordable housing will be a priority for the Scottish Futures Trust in the next financial year, finance director Peter Reekie has told Public Finance.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls today called on the government to use the £4bn windfall from the sale of the next generation of mobile phone licences to build 100,000 new homes.
Prime Minister David Cameron today revealed a series of relaxations to planning rules to boost housebuilding, including removing developers’ obligations to councils to provide affordable homes.
English local authorities will continue to receive extra government funding to tackle homelessness in their area until 2015, housing minister Grant Shapps has revealed.
The Bank of England should move beyond the narrow inflation measure ‘that did nothing to prevent the deepest recession for almost 70 years’, a leading think-tank said today.
Councils have been urged to be ‘flexible’ about affordable home requirements in developments to encourage more private investment in rented properties.
Councils could be forced to reopen planning agreements made with house builders if deals agreed before the economic downturn are holding up developments, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has...
Scottish ministers have published figures showing that Scotland is building council houses at more than five times the per capita rate found in England.
Councils should be given control of the Housing Benefit budget and use it to build new, affordable housing, the Institute for Public Policy Research has said.
Private landlords should be given tax breaks to encourage them to provide cheaper long-term accommodation for people on low incomes, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said today.
Councils have urged the government to drop proposals that would allow property developers to renegotiate infrastructure commitments made in planning deals.
As economic crisis turns to political crisis across Europe, what are the lessons for local democracy here? The May 3 elections sent out some strong messages on mayors, majorities and political...
English city councils should be given more powers over housing to enable them to play a greater role in the supply of new and decent homes, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
The Public Accounts Committee today called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure, saying some of the private sector profits were ‘difficult...
The aim of the infrastructure code isn’t just to help councils finish their Whole of Government Accounts. It should also to help them manage their assets better
