Efforts to improve the quality of social housing by the end of next year are being thwarted by councils failing to refurbish their homes fast enough, housing minister John Healey claimed this week
It’s supposed to be lighter touch but it is certainly tougher. The Audit Commission’s first area assessments were revealed this week – and put up on the Oneplace website for everyone to see. David...
Seventy-four households that were struggling to pay their mortgages agreed to sell their properties to housing associations and become tenants in the third quarter of 2009, figures have shown
A government target of building 3 million new homes by 2020 is unlikely to be achieved because of the dramatic slowdown in the industry in the past two years, a Joseph Rowntree Foundation study has...
Public spending restrictions are likely to increase the amount of social housing that still fails the decent homes standard at the end of next year, MPs were told this week
A third of armed forces families say the Ministry of Defence houses they live in are in poor condition, with a quarter adding that they are also poorly maintained, according to a report
Support services for vulnerable people managed by housing associations and other providers might be at risk because of funding changes, the Audit Commission has concluded
Local authorities are stepping up pressure on ministers to write off £18bn of historic debt as part of a major shake-up of housing finance.
More than 30 councils from the Campaign for Fair and Local...
