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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
Nearly all housing stock-owning councils in England plan to take advantage of the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap lift, analysis by the Local Government Association has revealed.