The government must increase the levels of housing benefit given to people in the private rented sector as families are being priced out of homes, according to a trade association.
There is just one week to go before the deadline for entries to the awards that celebrate excellence in the public accounting sector - next year’s coveted Public Finance Awards.
Groups have called for the housing crisis to be fixed after official figures revealed two homeless people died in England and Wales each day last year.
Housing should be considered infrastructure along with roads and rail to help solve the shortfall in UK homes, a housing association director has told the Labour conference.
The value of the government’s Help to Buy scheme is “uncertain” after going eight times over budget, according to a damning assessment by cross-party MPs.
Lib Dem spokesperson for housing Tim Farron has said charity Shelter’s proposals to build 3.1 million homes over the next 20 years were “ambitious, but we should do it”.
The number of homeless households in England rose 11% between the last quarter of 2018 and the first three months of this year, government figures have revealed.
Westminster must reform the Right to Buy and allow councils to keep all the receipts from homes sold under the scheme, the Local Government Association has said.
Director of operations for care and support at housing association Riverside Lee Buss looks at progress on the government’s rough sleeping strategy one year on.
An epidemic of stabbings rocking Britain’s cities can be tackled only by addressing key problems faced by young people such as lack of housing and unemployment.
Inherent problems with the housing planning system in England mean the government is “way off track” for reaching its goal of 300,000 new homes each year, MPs have claimed.
A comprehensive national strategy backed by proper funding and infrastructure is required to tackle the growing crisis of homelessness, according to a report from the Local Government Information...
