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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.