Charities and umbrella groups have raised concerns over cash-strapped councils’ ability to fulfil their duties under homelessness legislation brought in this week.
Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home. Yet all the evidence demonstrates that this need is still a long way from being met, says Sir Michael Lyons.
What can the government do to create a truly mixed economy of housing? Measures to improve affordability must be at the top of the agenda, says Terrie Alafat.
Local communities deserve the very highest standards of design in public housing. Councils have a crucial role to play in making that happen, says Paul Karakusevic.
Many councils are returning to a direct role in local housing provision. This means grappling with planning issues and new forms of local authority ownership, says Janice Morphet.
These essays, by leading public sector practitioners and experts, examine how to transform the housing landscape, and the role of public housing in that process.
These essays, by leading public sector practitioners and experts, examine how to transform the housing landscape, and the role of public housing in that process.Come to a topical debate on Tuesday 24...
Successful housing development involves using the distinctive qualities of the private and public sectors. Here’s how it’s done, says Natalie Elphicke.
The rate at which right to buy discounts have been handed out in the past six years has sparked a social housing ‘firesale’, the Local Government Association has warned.
The government should take an “urgent look” at increasing funding to affordable housing as more than 150,000 homes for social rent have been lost in five years, the Chartered Institute of Housing has...
Housing charity Shelter has launched a commission to lobby the government over the future of social housing, following concerns highlighted by the Grenfell Tower fire.
None of the 36 local authorities that have asked for central government support to install tower block fire safety measures such as sprinklers have received any funding so far, housing secretary...
The government cannot meet its housebuilding targets unless it scraps the borrowing cap on local authority housing revenue accounts to “unleash” council housebuilding, MPs have said.
The Chartered Institute of Housing has called on housing professionals, tenants and the general public to take part in a debate in order to “make a case” for social housing.
Liverpool City Council plans to set up a new housing company to build new homes, create jobs and manage demand for public services, says mayor Joe Anderson
