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7 Nov 16
Facts and figures from the November 2016 edition of Public Finance magazine on grammar schools, public trust in government and local government investments
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2 Nov 16
The government has been told it will need to speed up the disposal of public land if the Whitehall target to free up capacity for at least 160,000 new homes by 2020 is to be met.
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24 Oct 16
With developers and private landlords failing to provide enough suitable homes, councils are setting up housing companies to build homes of different tenures and costs
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20 Oct 16
The Brexit vote suggested a collapse in public trust in political institutions. While the government negotiates the terms of our EU departure, it also needs to focus on fixing skills, housing and...
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14 Oct 16
An extra £1m has been put behind the garden villages programme, taking the total government funding on offer to £7m.
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14 Oct 16
The Communities & Local Government select committee has backed a private members’ bill on reducing homelessness promoted by one its members.
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10 Oct 16
Ministers must use the Autumn Statement to turn party conference pledges on housing into a reality, the Chartered Institute of Housing has said today.
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4 Oct 16
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has indicated that the government will look to provide greater flexibility in how funding to support affordable homes can be used.
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3 Oct 16
The government is to create a £3bn housebuilding fund and directly commission homes on public sector land as part of plans to build more than 25,000 new homes before 2020, ministers have said.
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29 Sep 16
The government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme is to close at the end of the year, chancellor Philip Hammond has announced, as figures show it has supported mortgages worth less than 10% of...
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28 Sep 16
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that a Labour government would lift the housing borrowing cap on councils as part of what he called “municipal socialism for the 21st century”.
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19 Sep 16
Ministers have been urged to provide young people who are renting with mortgage deposits in order to enable them to get onto the property ladder, a report by the think-tank Localis has said.
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12 Sep 16
The first housing association tenants have exercised the right to buy their homes under the government’s extension of the scheme across the social housing sector.
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18 Aug 16
Levels of homelessness have risen to the extent that a new government-wide strategy is needed, including greater monitoring of local authorities’ homelessness performance, a committee of MPs has...
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11 Aug 16
Just 17% of council homes sold under the Right to Buy scheme in 2015-16 were replaced, an analysis by the Local Government Association has found.
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2 Aug 16
Home ownership in England has fallen to a level last seen in 1986 thanks to rising housing costs and static wages, an analysis by the Resolution Foundation has found.
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28 Jul 16
Councils should be reinstated as major builders of affordable housing to assuage the deepening housing crisis, a report by the Local Government Association has argued.
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25 Jul 16
The government should scrap stamp duty and ease planning restrictions to address the worsening housing crisis, the TaxPayers’ Alliance has said today.
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14 Jul 16
Follow all Public Finance's live coverage from the second day of this year's CIPFA conference in Manchester.
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14 Jul 16
New prime minister Theresa May should jettison the previous administration’s housing policy if she wants to claim the political centre ground.
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14 Jul 16
The self-financing settlement offered to councils by government in order to increase council house construction has failed to live up to its promise, CIPFA and the Chartered Institute of Housing have...
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13 Jul 16
Housing has been hit by the economic uncertainty following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. The government must develop a plan to keep the sector building
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12 Jul 16
The Department for Communities and Local Government has achieved only a small fraction of its target to release enough public land to build 160,000 new homes by 2020, the National Audit Office has...
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28 Jun 16
Half of Britain’s working households have seen no rise in living standards since the early 2000s, according to a Resolution Foundation report published today.
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22 Jun 16
Cuts in public expenditure following a withdrawal by the UK from the European Union could result in 18,000 fewer affordable homes by 2020, Labour’s shadow housing secretary John Healey has claimed.
7 Nov 16Facts and figures from the November 2016 edition of Public Finance magazine on grammar schools, public trust in government and local government investments
2 Nov 16The government has been told it will need to speed up the disposal of public land if the Whitehall target to free up capacity for at least 160,000 new homes by 2020 is to be met.
24 Oct 16With developers and private landlords failing to provide enough suitable homes, councils are setting up housing companies to build homes of different tenures and costs
20 Oct 16The Brexit vote suggested a collapse in public trust in political institutions. While the government negotiates the terms of our EU departure, it also needs to focus on fixing skills, housing and...
14 Oct 16An extra £1m has been put behind the garden villages programme, taking the total government funding on offer to £7m.
14 Oct 16The Communities & Local Government select committee has backed a private members’ bill on reducing homelessness promoted by one its members.
4 Oct 16Housing minister Gavin Barwell has indicated that the government will look to provide greater flexibility in how funding to support affordable homes can be used.
3 Oct 16The government is to create a £3bn housebuilding fund and directly commission homes on public sector land as part of plans to build more than 25,000 new homes before 2020, ministers have said.
28 Sep 16Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that a Labour government would lift the housing borrowing cap on councils as part of what he called “municipal socialism for the 21st century”.
19 Sep 16Ministers have been urged to provide young people who are renting with mortgage deposits in order to enable them to get onto the property ladder, a report by the think-tank Localis has said.
12 Sep 16The first housing association tenants have exercised the right to buy their homes under the government’s extension of the scheme across the social housing sector.
2 Aug 16Home ownership in England has fallen to a level last seen in 1986 thanks to rising housing costs and static wages, an analysis by the Resolution Foundation has found.
14 Jul 16Follow all Public Finance's live coverage from the second day of this year's CIPFA conference in Manchester.
14 Jul 16New prime minister Theresa May should jettison the previous administration’s housing policy if she wants to claim the political centre ground.
14 Jul 16The self-financing settlement offered to councils by government in order to increase council house construction has failed to live up to its promise, CIPFA and the Chartered Institute of Housing have...
28 Jun 16Half of Britain’s working households have seen no rise in living standards since the early 2000s, according to a Resolution Foundation report published today.
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