The Housing Corporation has renewed its call for councils and housing associations to team up to tackle homelessness and to ensure smoother planning decisions.
Everyone agrees that the council tax is regressive but there's less consensus on the solution. The interim Lyons report plumped for reforming the benefit system and not the bands. But both are...
The government needs to put its house in order over how it approaches its much-publicised efficiency drive or it may find that the result is to make the public sector even less effective than it was...
The government urged councils to incinerate a greater proportion of household and business waste this week as it launched a review of the problem of rubbish disposal.
Ministers have stepped in to clear up a bureaucratic bungle at the Housing Corporation after it emerged that decisions were wrongly delegated by its board.
Labour's plans for more housing depend on developers paying for the accompanying infrastructure with a new planning gain supplement. But there is opposition to this tax on building, as Mark Smulian...
Voluntary organisations can reach parts that monolithic public services can't even get close to. And the government is waking up to their importance in areas such as employment services and welfare...
This week's health and social care white paper promises joint working and preventive care in the community. But NHS deficits and social service cutbacks mean the trends are pointing the other way....
Lenders and developers are showing renewed interest in housing schemes funded through the Private Finance Initiative, a leading civil servant said this week.
A Northern council may be forced to merge some of its housing companies after being hit by the government's retreat over the way funds are allocated across the country.
The government was this week accused of failing Britain's poorest groups after it emerged that up to £7bn in benefits went unclaimed in 2003/04, while take-up of key welfare payments has fallen since...
Public service reforms will fail unless the government addresses 'unfair tax rules' and 'muddled regulation' in the competition for contracts, business and charity leaders have warned.
First it was in, then it was out, now it's 'in-sourced'. Croydon council believes it has found the best way to run its benefits service. Nathan Elvery explains
Tory leader David Cameron has hit the ground running, ditching old party certainties for the centre ground. But how much substance is there? Philip Johnston has his doubts
A London borough has called off any further stock transfer ballots after tenants on five estates rejected plans to switch their homes to housing associations.
Senior staff at the Department for Work and Pensions have outlined four key funding streams they expect will pay for the radical welfare reform proposals due to be unveiled by Work and Pensions...
Focusing on social housing at the expense of shared equity or private homes will not be enough to meet housing need, housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper said this week.
Banks should be obliged to offer all council and housing association tenants more attractive basic accounts while ensuring they do not run up huge debts, MPs have been told.
Senior staff responsible for IT at Whitehall's largest department have claimed that the days of introducing risky 'big bang' technologies are over, but say that they are on course to provide complex...
Over a million new homes are projected for the over-crowded Southeast. A planning and design abomination or a sensible way to provide pleasant, affordable homes for ordinary people? Will Hatchett...
Funny, isn't it? For ages, there are no transport crises. Then they all come along at once. Christian Wolmar explains the issues that are now putting the pressure on Transport Secretary Alistair...
