Some 425,000 houses are planned for green belt sites, of which more than 70% will be unaffordable, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has said.
The government has confirmed emergency financial assistance will be given to Kensington and Chelsea Council in the wake of the fatal Grenfell Tower fire.
The next government must give councils cash to build homes and stop developers using the planning system to get out of building affordable homes, a rural charity has said.
The proposals to tackle the affordability crisis in the government’s housing white paper do not go far enough, the Local Government Association has said.
Housing revenue account borrowing caps should be reviewed to allow local authorities to build more homes, the Communities and Local Government Committee has said.
Financial speculation has led to an “unsustainable” global housing crisis, according to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to housing.
The government’s housing white paper marks a policy shift from home ownership to renting and a rehabilitation for housing associations. Yet how much has really changed?
Local authorities are to be given new tools to increase the speed and scale of house building in their area as part of government proposals to tackle the nationwide housing crisis.
More than 120,000 socially rented homes will be lost in the next four years, according to a forecast published today by the Chartered Institute for Housing.
The government has given the green light for thousands of new starter homes to be built on brownfield sites across the country, with 30 local authority partnerships chosen to spearhead the scheme.
With developers and private landlords failing to provide enough suitable homes, councils are setting up housing companies to build homes of different tenures and costs
Supported accommodation must be exempt from the impending housing benefit cap in order to protect the most vulnerable and save piling additional pressures on councils and the NHS, the Local...
The Public Accounts Committee today slammed the government’s “entirely speculative” approach to its plan to extend Right to Buy discounts to 1.3 million housing association tenants.
From next year, council tenants earning over a set amount will pay higher rents, with the extra amount going to the Treasury. This is punitive and will be a bureaucratic nightmare, critics say
Bungalows and other homes for older people could make up as much as a quarter of council properties sold to fund a controversial government extension to the Right to Buy scheme, a report has...
An expert panel led by former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine has been formed to lead the government’s programme to regenerate 100 of the most rundown housing estates in England.
