Councils are urging ministers not to cut capital grants for social housing, warning that a failure to invest now will only increase costs in the long term.
Councils have welcomed a government pledge to press ahead with plans to scrap the Housing Revenue Account but have warned ministers not to saddle local authorities with unsustainable levels of debt...
Communities in rural areas hoping to develop their own housing projects will need to win the support of 75% of voters, housing minister Grant Shapps has confirmed.
Social housing provider Lovell has paid £28m to acquire the majority of Connaught Partnerships' social housing contracts and assets, it was announced today
Local government minister Bob Neill has claimed there is not ‘a shred of evidence’ that this week’s collapse of social housing maintenance firm Connaught was linked to the scale and pace of...
Cuts to housing benefit announced in the June emergency Budget have been slammed by poverty and housing campaigners after a new study found that the move would push thousands deeper into poverty
Sir Bob Kerslake, the chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency, has been appointed permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government
A conservative think-tank has criticised the government’s policy on housing for being ‘not radical enough’, and has called for a wide-ranging shake-up to cut public spending by an estimated £20bn a...
Government plans to encourage home building have been broadly welcomed – but doubts remain about whether the reforms are enough to meet the UK's rising demand for housing.
People living in social housing in England will be able to swap homes more easily with other tenants anywhere in the country, the government announced today
Housing groups are warning today that benefit reforms brought in under last month's Budget threaten to make three quarters of a million people homeless
Cutting Housing Benefit will not only affect those families that rely on it, but could widen the poverty gap and affect the recovery, says Campbell Robb
Plans to build tens of thousands of new homes have been scrapped following the government’s decision to axe regional house-building targets, the National Housing Federation said today
Councils’ attempts to use the Private Finance Initiative to build houses have suffered from massive cost over-runs and delays, the National Audit Office said today
Ministers’ promises to prioritise cash for new social homes amid broader cuts in communities spending has been questioned by experts and dismissed by the Opposition as ‘false’.
The government has offered councils a ‘once-and-for-all’ deal to reform the housing finance system, which would give authorities the chance to keep the rental receipts from their tenants in return...
