The cap on how much councils can borrow against their housing revenue account will be scrapped and austerity brought to an end, Theresa May announced in her speech to the Conservative Party...
Theresa May has pledged to hand £2bn to housing associations over the course of seven years from 2022. Jeremy Earnshaw, chief financial officer at housing association Your Housing Group, writes about...
Ken Lee, chair of CIPFA’s housing panel, says there are plenty of actions the government can take if it wants to send a positive message about social housing.
The long-awaited social housing green paper, published last week, pledged to support local authorities to build more. But the Chartered Institute of Housing’s David Pipe says it did not go far...
The government has come under fire from campaign groups for failing to commit new funding to boost social housing, in its long-awaited green paper released today.
The government must refocus its housebuilding spend on affordable homes and suspend the right to buy scheme, according to the Chartered Institute for Housing.
Kensington and Chelsea council’s efforts to re-house residents after the Grenfell Tower fire were ‘incompetent’ and ‘indifferent’, a survivor has suggested to MPs.
A New York-style property levy could give local authorities a multi-billion pound windfall to put toward housebuilding, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering has said.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council spent 25% of its usable reserves last financial year as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire, figures out today have revealed.
While much of the focus was understandably on cladding, the Hackitt Review could have a profound impact on tenant engagement, regulation and housing management, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s...
Local authorities have spent millions on renting housing that they previously owned for temporary accommodation, research by a trade magazine has found.
