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13 Mar 18
The home-owning democracy has gone into steep decline. And politicians are not being decisive enough about dealing with it, says Liam Booth-Smith.
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5 Mar 18
The prime minister has announced today a ‘major overhaul’ of the planning rules, aimed at increasing the rate of home delivery in England.
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26 Feb 18
The first tranche of a fund aimed at speeding up planning decisions will be £15.8m, spread among 68 projects, housing minister Dominic Raab has announced.
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16 Feb 18
Over 423,000 homes are waiting to be built despite receiving planning permission, according to research commissioned by the Local Government Association.
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12 Feb 18
The government should draw up a national strategy to deal with housing for older people, according to a cross-party committee of MPs.
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9 Feb 18
The High Court has ruled that the controversial Haringey Council redevelopment scheme is not in breach of the Localism Act.
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5 Feb 18
London boroughs will need to ballot tenants before embarking on large-scale estate regeneration projects or risk losing City Hall funds, mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
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2 Feb 18
Forget Labour infighting and public-private debates, what’s at stake in Haringey is how we think, talk and make decisions about places, says Jonathan Carr-West.
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2 Feb 18
The rate at which right to buy discounts have been handed out in the past six years has sparked a social housing ‘firesale’, the Local Government Association has warned.
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1 Feb 18
Local people have expertise and entrepreneurial flair. Councils should make the most of it, says Vidhya Alakeson of Power to Change.
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31 Jan 18
The government’s response to school teachers quitting the profession in England has been “sluggish and incoherent”, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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31 Jan 18
The government should take an “urgent look” at increasing funding to affordable housing as more than 150,000 homes for social rent have been lost in five years, the Chartered Institute of Housing has...
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30 Jan 18
The Ministry of Defence has lost out on up to £4.2bn after it sold 55,000 homes to a private company, the National Audit Office has found.
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26 Jan 18
Council housing is undergoing a “renaissance”, according to a leading official at the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government.
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25 Jan 18
Rough sleeping increased sharply in England last year, leading to calls from councils and the Chartered Institute of Housing to change government policies on welfare and home building.
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24 Jan 18
Housing charity Shelter has launched a commission to lobby the government over the future of social housing, following concerns highlighted by the Grenfell Tower fire.
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23 Jan 18
None of the 36 local authorities that have asked for central government support to install tower block fire safety measures such as sprinklers have received any funding so far, housing secretary...
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22 Jan 18
The government cannot meet its housebuilding targets unless it scraps the borrowing cap on local authority housing revenue accounts to “unleash” council housebuilding, MPs have said.
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19 Jan 18
English councils will receive an extra £29m to support unaccompanied asylum seeking children and care leavers, communities secretary Sajid Javid has said.
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18 Jan 18
The revamped version of the private finance initiative – dubbed PF2 – has been little used and has few major differences from its predecessor, the National Audit Office has found.
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17 Jan 18
The Chartered Institute of Housing has called on housing professionals, tenants and the general public to take part in a debate in order to “make a case” for social housing.
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11 Jan 18
The Wales Audit Office has urged local authorities to take stock of their of homelessness services as real terms spending drops 26.3% over seven years - despite a cash boost from the Welsh Government.
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10 Jan 18
Local authorities must have robust financial plans to withstand the myriad of challenges in the forseeable future, says Rob Whiteman.
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10 Jan 18
Just one in ten new homes built on land sold by the NHS are being sold at a “genuinely affordable” price, according to the New Economics Foundation.
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4 Jan 18
Residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s homes have been told the council has taken back direct control of their homes from the ill-fated tenant management organisation.
13 Mar 18The home-owning democracy has gone into steep decline. And politicians are not being decisive enough about dealing with it, says Liam Booth-Smith.
5 Mar 18The prime minister has announced today a ‘major overhaul’ of the planning rules, aimed at increasing the rate of home delivery in England.
12 Feb 18The government should draw up a national strategy to deal with housing for older people, according to a cross-party committee of MPs.
9 Feb 18The High Court has ruled that the controversial Haringey Council redevelopment scheme is not in breach of the Localism Act.
5 Feb 18London boroughs will need to ballot tenants before embarking on large-scale estate regeneration projects or risk losing City Hall funds, mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
2 Feb 18Forget Labour infighting and public-private debates, what’s at stake in Haringey is how we think, talk and make decisions about places, says Jonathan Carr-West.
2 Feb 18The rate at which right to buy discounts have been handed out in the past six years has sparked a social housing ‘firesale’, the Local Government Association has warned.
1 Feb 18Local people have expertise and entrepreneurial flair. Councils should make the most of it, says Vidhya Alakeson of Power to Change.
31 Jan 18The government’s response to school teachers quitting the profession in England has been “sluggish and incoherent”, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
31 Jan 18The government should take an “urgent look” at increasing funding to affordable housing as more than 150,000 homes for social rent have been lost in five years, the Chartered Institute of Housing has...
30 Jan 18The Ministry of Defence has lost out on up to £4.2bn after it sold 55,000 homes to a private company, the National Audit Office has found.
26 Jan 18Council housing is undergoing a “renaissance”, according to a leading official at the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government.
25 Jan 18Rough sleeping increased sharply in England last year, leading to calls from councils and the Chartered Institute of Housing to change government policies on welfare and home building.
23 Jan 18None of the 36 local authorities that have asked for central government support to install tower block fire safety measures such as sprinklers have received any funding so far, housing secretary...
22 Jan 18The government cannot meet its housebuilding targets unless it scraps the borrowing cap on local authority housing revenue accounts to “unleash” council housebuilding, MPs have said.
19 Jan 18English councils will receive an extra £29m to support unaccompanied asylum seeking children and care leavers, communities secretary Sajid Javid has said.
18 Jan 18The revamped version of the private finance initiative – dubbed PF2 – has been little used and has few major differences from its predecessor, the National Audit Office has found.
10 Jan 18Local authorities must have robust financial plans to withstand the myriad of challenges in the forseeable future, says Rob Whiteman.
10 Jan 18Just one in ten new homes built on land sold by the NHS are being sold at a “genuinely affordable” price, according to the New Economics Foundation.
4 Jan 18Residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s homes have been told the council has taken back direct control of their homes from the ill-fated tenant management organisation.
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