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16 May 22
A council in south west England will borrow up to £10m to fund “critical” temporary accommodation to house homeless families amid the cost-of-living crisis.
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12 May 22
Levelling up minister Michael Gove has suggested that the government could fail to hit its manifesto pledge to provide 300,000 new homes a year by 2025.
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3 May 22
Boris Johnson is “very excited” by the prospect of allowing people who live in housing association properties to buy their homes at a discounted price, in plans critics have called “hare-brained”.
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19 Apr 22
Proposals to abolish section 106 charges in favour of a new infrastructure tax could disincentivise investment in poorer regions, working against 'levelling up', according to experts....
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7 Apr 22
Better scrutiny of housing benefit and enforcement in supported housing appeared to improve the service’s value for money in five pilot schemes, but opportunities for future savings remain...
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11 Mar 22
Social housing landlords are failing to maintain homes and build new ones due to the cost of replacing cladding on high rise blocks, according to MPs.
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3 Mar 22
Greater financial powers for local authorities combined with greater involvement of existing residents could help solve the UK’s housing crisis
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18 Jan 22
Social housing conditions have deteriorated in part because housing associations have become accountable to investors in the City, rather than to tenants, sector experts told MPs this week.
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8 Nov 21
A London council has begun a ‘key amnesty’ aiming to reduce tenancy fraud, promising “no questions asked” of those who have been using council homes illegally.
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18 Oct 21
Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
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9 Sep 21
The London Borough of Merton is set to relinquish property sale income on a £1.2bn joint-venture, after a funding gap emerged in the project last year.
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8 Sep 21
The £1.5bn Green Homes Grant was approved by a senior civil servant, despite an internal committee rejecting its business case, according to the National Audit Office.
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31 Aug 21
Government plans to spend £8.6bn building affordable homes still leave a large unaddressed need for social housing, an expert has warned.
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24 Aug 21
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham used Public Works Loan Board funding to increase its housing stock, with help from an authority-owned company.
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5 Aug 21
The London Borough of Bromley will provide £20m of its own resources for a joint-venture aimed at providing 300 homes at affordable rent for residents.
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30 Jul 21
Poorly maintained records of grants given out for affordable rented homes in Bristol meant data was unreliable, according to a highly critical report from the city council’s internal auditors.
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28 Jun 21
A London borough has written off costs totalling more £7m after a regeneration programme was scrapped by the authority last year.
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25 Jun 21
Mounting costs relating to a block of flats with dangerous cladding could lead to a local authority lending millions to a council-owned company – money it admits might not be fully paid back
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15 Jun 21
Kensington & Chelsea’s Grenfell tragedy response means opening up to residents over the viability of new homes.
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7 Jun 21
City of Edinburgh Council will progress with a £30m housing pilot which could see former council homes sold back to the authority to cover essential repairs.
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4 Jun 21
Regulators have threatened to close down Luton Borough Council’s wholly-owned housing development company after it failed to file its accounts.
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24 May 21
The Grenfell Tower fire has so far cost the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea £406m, documents have revealed.
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17 May 21
Torbay Council proposes borrowing at least £45m to lend to a recently-created housing subsidiary, to help boost the number of affordable homes in the borough.
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14 May 21
The London Borough of Newham has approved plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in the next three years to regenerate and add to its housing stock.
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30 Apr 21
Property developers will pay at least £2bn towards removing unsafe cladding under new government proposals.
16 May 22A council in south west England will borrow up to £10m to fund “critical” temporary accommodation to house homeless families amid the cost-of-living crisis.
12 May 22Levelling up minister Michael Gove has suggested that the government could fail to hit its manifesto pledge to provide 300,000 new homes a year by 2025.
3 May 22Boris Johnson is “very excited” by the prospect of allowing people who live in housing association properties to buy their homes at a discounted price, in plans critics have called “hare-brained”.
19 Apr 22Proposals to abolish section 106 charges in favour of a new infrastructure tax could disincentivise investment in poorer regions, working against 'levelling up', according to experts....
7 Apr 22Better scrutiny of housing benefit and enforcement in supported housing appeared to improve the service’s value for money in five pilot schemes, but opportunities for future savings remain...
11 Mar 22Social housing landlords are failing to maintain homes and build new ones due to the cost of replacing cladding on high rise blocks, according to MPs.
3 Mar 22Greater financial powers for local authorities combined with greater involvement of existing residents could help solve the UK’s housing crisis
18 Jan 22Social housing conditions have deteriorated in part because housing associations have become accountable to investors in the City, rather than to tenants, sector experts told MPs this week.
8 Nov 21A London council has begun a ‘key amnesty’ aiming to reduce tenancy fraud, promising “no questions asked” of those who have been using council homes illegally.
18 Oct 21Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
9 Sep 21The London Borough of Merton is set to relinquish property sale income on a £1.2bn joint-venture, after a funding gap emerged in the project last year.
8 Sep 21The £1.5bn Green Homes Grant was approved by a senior civil servant, despite an internal committee rejecting its business case, according to the National Audit Office.
31 Aug 21Government plans to spend £8.6bn building affordable homes still leave a large unaddressed need for social housing, an expert has warned.
24 Aug 21The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham used Public Works Loan Board funding to increase its housing stock, with help from an authority-owned company.
5 Aug 21The London Borough of Bromley will provide £20m of its own resources for a joint-venture aimed at providing 300 homes at affordable rent for residents.
30 Jul 21Poorly maintained records of grants given out for affordable rented homes in Bristol meant data was unreliable, according to a highly critical report from the city council’s internal auditors.
28 Jun 21A London borough has written off costs totalling more £7m after a regeneration programme was scrapped by the authority last year.
25 Jun 21Mounting costs relating to a block of flats with dangerous cladding could lead to a local authority lending millions to a council-owned company – money it admits might not be fully paid back
15 Jun 21Kensington & Chelsea’s Grenfell tragedy response means opening up to residents over the viability of new homes.
7 Jun 21City of Edinburgh Council will progress with a £30m housing pilot which could see former council homes sold back to the authority to cover essential repairs.
4 Jun 21Regulators have threatened to close down Luton Borough Council’s wholly-owned housing development company after it failed to file its accounts.
24 May 21The Grenfell Tower fire has so far cost the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea £406m, documents have revealed.
14 May 21The London Borough of Newham has approved plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in the next three years to regenerate and add to its housing stock.
30 Apr 21Property developers will pay at least £2bn towards removing unsafe cladding under new government proposals.
