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6 Sep 01
Local authorities have successfully reduced fraud among private landlords applying for grants to renovate homes.
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6 Sep 01
Paramilitary intimidation made 1,900 Northern Ireland families homeless last year, according to the annual report of the Housing Executive published last week.
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23 Aug 01
Public sector workers are being priced out of home ownership in large parts of the country, according to a survey.
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9 Aug 01
Refugee groups have called on the Home Office to give councils more cash towards the dispersal of asylum seekers following the murder of a Kurdish man in Glasgow this week.
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9 Aug 01
Social landlords inspected by the Housing Corporation will not receive a score or star rating, it was confirmed this week.
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9 Aug 01
Tenants living in social housing could be invited to become part home-owners under plans being drawn up by the government.
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9 Aug 01
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
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9 Aug 01
Public sector workers are threatening industrial action in protest over Newcastle City Council's moves towards greater partnership with the private sector.
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2 Aug 01
The Housing Corporation is making important strides to employ more women and people from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups at all levels of the organisation, says chief executive Norman Perry.
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2 Aug 01
Housing associations are making fewer applications to build new homes, following the introduction of a new on-line bidding system.
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19 Jul 01
The simmering hostility between the trade unions and the government over the 'privatisation' of the public sector broke out into open warfare this week.
The GMB, the country's fourth largest union...
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19 Jul 01
The mother of all parliaments is having a difficult time with some of her more unruly offspring.
Rebellious MPs are defying parental authority and, echoing the cry of teenagers everywhere,...
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19 Jul 01
The campaign for elected mayors took one leap forward then a large step back this week after residents in Watford voted yes to a US-style boss, only to find that slow work by Parliament will put back...
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12 Jul 01
Birmingham City Council is setting a precedent in housing transfers by asking lenders to underwrite loans worth £1bn before it consults tenants over the move.
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5 Jul 01
The Audit Commission has warned councils they are not on track to meet statutory targets for waste management and recycling.
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28 Jun 01
Twenty-seven councils have been given the green light to sell off swathes of their housing stock as the government renewed its commitment last week to the large-scale transfer of council housing to...
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21 Jun 01
The royal household has slashed the amount it spends on travel by two-thirds since it began making its own arrangements, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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14 Jun 01
Middlesbrough Council has entered into a £260m public-private partnership with Hyder Business Services, the biggest deal of its kind in Northeast England.
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7 Jun 01
Lambeth council in south London is to consider waiving multi-million pound compensation rights in an attempt to make a speedy withdrawal from its ill-fated housing benefit contract with outsourcing...
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7 Jun 01
Unison has criticised the Scottish Executive for limiting the scope of its Freedom of Information Bill to public authorities while exempting many other organisations that provide public services.
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24 May 01
Tory spending proposals have been heavily criticised by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) for failing to demonstrate support for arm's-length management companies or the Private Finance...
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3 May 01
The Treasury has saved £6.5bn on the housing benefit bill since 1996 because of restrictions on claims introduced by the last government, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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3 May 01
Social landlords bidding for money from the Housing Corporation's Safer Communities Supported Housing Fund no longer have to raise matched funding from a local authority.
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19 Apr 01
The Housing Corporation must be careful not to 'throw away its good work' when its new regulatory framework for housing associations comes into effect, according to the National Audit Office.
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5 Apr 01
Commercial lenders are keeping a close eye on social landlords in case their financial strength is impaired by rent restructuring.
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