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17 Jun 19
Thousands of homes are to be built in rapidly expanding communities following a £142m injection of cash in infrastructure improvements.
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13 Jun 19
Around three fifths of those who bought a home through the Help to Buy scheme would have been able to buy a property without the government’s help, according to the National Audit Office.
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7 Jun 19
Money matters as much to planning as other services that may have been more visibly hit by cuts but equally important is a seat at the top table, says Royal Town Planning Institute’s Victoria...
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7 Jun 19
Social housing renters are still being failed by poor regulation two years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, a charity has warned.
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6 Jun 19
A landmark ruling has left local authorities open to legal action for failure to protect vulnerable children against abuse or neglect.
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3 Jun 19
Local authorities are likely to miss recycling targets set out in the government’s waste disposal strategy, say academics.
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30 May 19
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea made a series of multi-million pound property deals while cutting costs on Grenfell Tower’s refurbishments, research has found.
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24 May 19
A new family in England was found to be homeless, on average, every five minutes over a recent six-month period, analysis of government data has found.
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23 May 19
Questions have been raised over the council’s clean-up effort in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, which left potentially toxic residue on residents’ homes.
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20 May 19
Key decisions are increasingly determined by computers but there is a growing sense of unease about the transparency of the algorithms that power them, says John Thornton.
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17 May 19
The government must look further and aim higher if it wants to end youth homelessness says Reform’s Aidan Shilson-Thomas.
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17 May 19
Nearly all councils in England think the benefits freeze will push more people into homelessness, a study has found.
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13 May 19
Councils will now have a legal duty to protect victims of domestic abuse, the prime minister has announced.
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9 May 19
Greater Manchester’s mayor has called on public bodies to prevent a “homelessness emergency”.
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9 May 19
Charities and trade bodies have criticised the time it has taken the government to launch a £200m fund to remove Grenfell-style cladding from private high-rise buildings.
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1 May 19
Drone usage should come with “clear safeguards” as councils look to make greater use of the technology, a civil liberties group has warned.
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30 Apr 19
The government does not yet have “all the ingredients” it needs to hit its target of 300,000 new homes by 2025, according to a leading civil servant.
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26 Apr 19
The supply of new homes will not be enough to solve the severe undersupply of housing in this country, says CIPFA’s Tim Reade.
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26 Apr 19
Northern businesses should pay into a fund to improve the health and wellbeing of local people, a think-tank has urged.
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24 Apr 19
The Homelessness Reduction Act is being undermined by a “chronic” shortage of affordable housing, MPs have heard.
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24 Apr 19
A £1bn drop in annual council spending on homelessness support in England should be a “wake-up call” for the government, charities have warned.
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15 Apr 19
Proposals to scrap unfair ‘no-fault’ tenant evictions in England have been outlined by the government.
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4 Apr 19
Up to 67% of councils feel they lack the funding to meet new duties to tackle homelessness, analysis has found.
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3 Apr 19
Today marks one year since the Homelessness Reducation Act came into force. John Glenton from The Riverside Group housing association suggests how councils can meet their duties under this act....
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1 Apr 19
A year on from the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act, Neil Merrick looks at what’s changed on the streets.