The chancellor will use this week’s Autumn Budget to set out how the government will build 300,000 homes a year, 100,000 more than currently built each year, it emerged over the weekend.
The Right to Buy scheme could “grind to a halt” because local authorities do not have the cash to replace sold homes, the Local Government Association has warned.
Council departments need to work together to improve walking connectivity between new housing developments, says Local Government Information Unit policy researcher Andrew Walker.
Employers and the government should pay contributions to help employees save for a mortgage rather than pay pensions contributions, a report out today said.
Theresa May's promise of an extra £2bn for housing may have signalled a welcome change of approach but the government needs to do more to truly tackle the housing crisis, says...
Rent controls are common across Europe and a levy on excessive rents could help generate revenue to build more social housing, says Generation Rent’s Seb Klier
Local authorities that are “good and competent” should be able to borrow more to build homes, a Conservative MP has told a fringe session at the Tory’s annual conference.
Councils and housing associations must work together in this “challenging” financial climate if the UK is to combat the housing crisis, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing.
As well as enormous human costs, the Grenfell Tower fire has huge financial consequences, with millions of pounds expected to be spent on the inquiry and councils rushing to make their buildings safe...
New home starts in the past year have reached their highest level since the slump of 2009, according to housebuilding statistics issued by the Department for Communities & Local Government.
Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation has been relieved of its duties for the social housing estate where the Grenfell tower fire took place, Theresa May has confirmed.
The government has confirmed that 111 buildings have failed the latest cladding system tests, 90 of which are local authority or housing association run.
Early full-scale tests of cladding systems in the UK have revealed 47 local authority or housing association owned buildings have failed the fire safety tests.
Communities secretary Sajid Javid has named four members to the Grenfell Recovery Taskforce, which will oversee the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s efforts to recover from last month...
February’s housing white paper “signalled government has started to understand some of the key issues” that hold back housing delivery, CIPFA conference heard from Eamonn Boylan,...
A 12-strong coalition of organisations concerned with rural areas has warned these face becoming “enclaves of the affluent” unless the government acts on the lack of affordable housing...
