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15 May 17
The Conservatives have promised to help local authorities build thousands of council homes with a £1.4bn cash injection from existing funds.
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12 May 17
The proposals to tackle the affordability crisis in the government’s housing white paper do not go far enough, the Local Government Association has said.
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9 May 17
Housing policy is currently more settled than in any other briefs although councils face some key constraints.
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29 Apr 17
Housing revenue account borrowing caps should be reviewed to allow local authorities to build more homes, the Communities and Local Government Committee has said.
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28 Apr 17
The government’s ambition to build one million homes does not go far enough to meet the country’s true housing need, a Public Accounts Committee report has stated.
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27 Apr 17
Labour has pledged to build a million homes, 200,000 a year over the next Parliament, of which half would be council homes.
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19 Apr 17
Concerns about paying rent and being evicted is damaging people’s mental health in England, the homelessness charity Shelter has claimed.
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10 Apr 17
Local authorities have been given powers to crack down on rogue landlords including the ability to issue fines of up to £30,000, in a bid to help renters.
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3 Apr 17
In a bid to boost home building, councils will have to produce up-to-date registers of brownfield sites in their areas, the government has announced.
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31 Mar 17
The gap between local housing allowance and private rent means housing is out of reach for young single people, research has revealed.
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24 Mar 17
The government balance sheet is increasingly being used to support flagging sectors of the economy from infrastructure to mortgages. What are the risks to the public finances?
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22 Mar 17
Homelessness among young people is being fuelled by cuts to benefits and a shortfall in housing, according to a report out today.
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3 Mar 17
Financial speculation has led to an “unsustainable” global housing crisis, according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing.
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3 Mar 17
Facts and figures from the March edition of Public Finance magazine on rising inflation, public support for greater health spending and the spike in rough sleeping
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1 Mar 17
The government’s housing white paper marks a policy shift from home ownership to renting and a rehabilitation for housing associations. Yet how much has really changed?
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7 Feb 17
Local authorities are to be given new tools to increase the speed and scale of house building in their area as part of government proposals to tackle the nationwide housing crisis.
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23 Jan 17
Councils need a suite of new powers to crack down on landlords who let out substandard accommodation, Labour has said.
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19 Jan 17
Housebuilding needs to “increase across the country”, the National Audit Office has said.
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18 Jan 17
More than 120,000 socially rented homes will be lost in the next four years, according to a forecast published today by the Chartered Institute for Housing.
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13 Jan 17
The Scottish Government has announced the first changes to its benefits regime under the welfare powers devolved by last year’s Scotland Act – but was criticised by its opponents for not...
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13 Jan 17
Planned changes to the New Homes Bonus will have an adverse effect on communities, shrinking funding and reducing the incentive for new housebuilding, the District Councils Network has warned.
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11 Jan 17
Almost three-quarters of local councils believe that the planning system is weighted too heavily in favour of developers at the expense of local democracy, according to a survey.
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5 Jan 17
Housing providers are being invited to bid for a share of a £7bn fund in what is being billed as a “dramatic expansion” of the government’s affordable housing programme.
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3 Jan 17
The locations of the first 14 garden villages and three more garden towns were confirmed yesterday.
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3 Jan 17
The government has given the green light for thousands of new starter homes to be built on brownfield sites across the country, with 30 local authority partnerships chosen to spearhead the scheme.
15 May 17The Conservatives have promised to help local authorities build thousands of council homes with a £1.4bn cash injection from existing funds.
12 May 17The proposals to tackle the affordability crisis in the government’s housing white paper do not go far enough, the Local Government Association has said.
9 May 17Housing policy is currently more settled than in any other briefs although councils face some key constraints.
28 Apr 17The government’s ambition to build one million homes does not go far enough to meet the country’s true housing need, a Public Accounts Committee report has stated.
27 Apr 17Labour has pledged to build a million homes, 200,000 a year over the next Parliament, of which half would be council homes.
19 Apr 17Concerns about paying rent and being evicted is damaging people’s mental health in England, the homelessness charity Shelter has claimed.
10 Apr 17Local authorities have been given powers to crack down on rogue landlords including the ability to issue fines of up to £30,000, in a bid to help renters.
24 Mar 17The government balance sheet is increasingly being used to support flagging sectors of the economy from infrastructure to mortgages. What are the risks to the public finances?
22 Mar 17Homelessness among young people is being fuelled by cuts to benefits and a shortfall in housing, according to a report out today.
3 Mar 17Financial speculation has led to an “unsustainable” global housing crisis, according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing.
3 Mar 17Facts and figures from the March edition of Public Finance magazine on rising inflation, public support for greater health spending and the spike in rough sleeping
1 Mar 17The government’s housing white paper marks a policy shift from home ownership to renting and a rehabilitation for housing associations. Yet how much has really changed?
23 Jan 17Councils need a suite of new powers to crack down on landlords who let out substandard accommodation, Labour has said.
18 Jan 17More than 120,000 socially rented homes will be lost in the next four years, according to a forecast published today by the Chartered Institute for Housing.
13 Jan 17The Scottish Government has announced the first changes to its benefits regime under the welfare powers devolved by last year’s Scotland Act – but was criticised by its opponents for not...
13 Jan 17Planned changes to the New Homes Bonus will have an adverse effect on communities, shrinking funding and reducing the incentive for new housebuilding, the District Councils Network has warned.
5 Jan 17Housing providers are being invited to bid for a share of a £7bn fund in what is being billed as a “dramatic expansion” of the government’s affordable housing programme.
3 Jan 17The locations of the first 14 garden villages and three more garden towns were confirmed yesterday.
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