Communities secretary Greg Clark has been urged to review the government’s housing policies after research found that only one in eight properties sold under the revamped Right to Buy scheme...
Facts and figures from the September edition of Public Finance magazine, on social housing shortfalls, austerity’s trajectory, asylum seekers and foreign workers, and time lost to strikes
The country needs thousands of new homes and providing them is a government policy priority. So why have the Conservatives announced measures that will lead to fewer homes being built by social...
Plans to lower social housing rents by 1% a year for the next four years could lead to as many as 42,000 fewer homes being built across the country, the government has been warned.
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...
Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to impose rent cuts on social housing providers in last week’s summer Budget has hit the creditworthiness of the sector, ratings agency Fitch has said.
Council and housing association properties risk becoming the “A&E of housing”, a place for people who are in crisis, the CIPFA conference was told today.
The need to build more houses is overwhelming, but we need to move on from traditional models of delivery. Councils can create the conditions for new development to thrive.
Government disposal of public land for new homes was “slower than expected”, but still met the target to release enough sites to build up to 100,000 new dwellings by the end of 2014/15,...
Programmes run by the government’s Homes and Communities Agency supported the construction of nearly 180,000 affordable homes in the four years to the end of March 2015, it has been confirmed.
The public sector procurement function does not enjoy the status that it does in the private sector. This needs to change if we are to continue to drive efficiencies and add value
Government plans to merge three public service ombudsmen into one organisation for the whole of the sector will provide better value for money, one of the watchdogs involved has said.
The government is to press ahead with plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to housing associations tenants, despite warnings that this would hurt the public finances.
With all the talk of a Northern Powerhouse, Jules Pipe fears the capital is missing out. The London Councils chair talks to PF about devolution deals, house prices, Hackney and working with Boris
Nearly a quarter of a million empty homes could be brought back into use if councils could levy taxes on properties left vacant for more than a year, the Institute for Public Policy North said today.
Labour would scrap stamp duty for first-time buyers as part of moves to boost housebuilding if it forms the next government, Ed Miliband announced today.
Conservative plans to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to tenants in housing association properties would damage to the long-term health of the UK's public finances, the Institute for Fiscal...
David Cameron has set out plans to extend the government’s Right-to-Buy scheme to social housing tenants, to be funded by forcing local authorities to sell off high-value council homes.
