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29 Nov 01
Local authorities are to be given clear guidance from the government on how much low-cost housing they should demand from developers under the system of 'planning gain'.
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29 Nov 01
Rents levied by councils and housing associations are to be capped at £100 per week to protect tenants from the most severe impact of restructuring.
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29 Nov 01
No attempt will be made to reform housing benefit until clear progress is made on rent restructuring, registered social landlords have been told.
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29 Nov 01
Housing associations are stepping up efforts to defend Muslims against racism following the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11.
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29 Nov 01
English local authorities could be up to £200m better off after local government minister Nick Raynsford unveiled plans to scrap the council tax discount for second-home owners.
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22 Nov 01
English councils are set to receive an increase of around 7% in grant when ministers unveil the provisional 2002/03 finance settlement next week, Public Finance can reveal.
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22 Nov 01
Social housing needs billions of pounds more in funding from 2003/04 onwards to tackle social regeneration and to provide 20,000 extra homes per year, the government was told this week.
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22 Nov 01
The Private Finance Initiative has so far failed in its mission to increase substantially investment in Britain's public services, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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15 Nov 01
As the British government muses over the future of local democracy, a cluster of countries is grappling with the gargantuan task of creating local government in a bid to join the European Union.
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15 Nov 01
Two housing associations are proposing to swap a total of 1,800 homes in an attempt to reduce their management costs.
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8 Nov 01
Pressure is mounting on ministers to introduce rent capping to protect tenants from large increases as social landlords get to grips with rent restructuring.
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8 Nov 01
Local councils could be forced to delve deep into their reserves to shore up their employees' pension funds despite the government's insistence that an actuarial review of the market will uncover few...
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1 Nov 01
Children placed in bed and breakfast accommodation because their family is homeless are missing out on important health checks, the government told local authorities this week.
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1 Nov 01
Local authorities need to address the failings rampant in the administration of housing benefit as poor management is causing hardship for claimants, according to the Audit Commission.
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1 Nov 01
The political future of Scottish First Minister Henry McLeish was under threat this week as a police investigation began into what he called an 'error' over income received from a tenant for space...
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25 Oct 01
Who said politics is no longer about ideas?
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18 Oct 01
Newcastle City Council's controversial plans to involve the private sector in service provision have suffered a double blow.
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11 Oct 01
The Housing Corporation is to make housing in the countryside a priority.
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11 Oct 01
As the prime minister embarks on his mission to change the world, it seems appropriate that his junior colleagues are left with the more mundane task of reconstructing Britain.
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11 Oct 01
Milton Keynes Council and Northamptonshire County Council were this week pushing the boundaries of strategic partnerships after agreeing a short-list of private companies to merge their support...
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11 Oct 01
Fourteen councils have bid to set up arm's-length management companies as an alternative to transferring their houses to a new landlord.
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4 Oct 01
The Audit Commission's role in auditing the health service comes in for some sharp criticism in a new report published this week.
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4 Oct 01
Public-private partnerships suffered a new blow this week when the London Borough of Brent rejected a multimillion pound Private Finance Initiative education project because it did not provide value...
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4 Oct 01
Increasing numbers of housing associations are exceeding the government's rent rise targets.
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4 Oct 01
Fewer people are crossing local authority boundaries to be housed by a registered social landlord.
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