A government initiative to build 200,000 homes for first time buyers has failed to produce a single home since it was announced in 2015, the National Audit Office has found.
Housing should be considered infrastructure along with roads and rail to help solve the shortfall in UK homes, a housing association director has told the Labour conference.
Lib Dem spokesperson for housing Tim Farron has said charity Shelter’s proposals to build 3.1 million homes over the next 20 years were “ambitious, but we should do it”.
The number of homeless households in England rose 11% between the last quarter of 2018 and the first three months of this year, government figures have revealed.
Westminster must reform the Right to Buy and allow councils to keep all the receipts from homes sold under the scheme, the Local Government Association has said.
Inherent problems with the housing planning system in England mean the government is “way off track” for reaching its goal of 300,000 new homes each year, MPs have claimed.
A comprehensive national strategy backed by proper funding and infrastructure is required to tackle the growing crisis of homelessness, according to a report from the Local Government Information...
Around three fifths of those who bought a home through the Help to Buy scheme would have been able to buy a property without the government’s help, according to the National Audit Office.
Money matters as much to planning as other services that may have been more visibly hit by cuts but equally important is a seat at the top table, says Royal Town Planning Institute’s Victoria...
Questions have been raised over the council’s clean-up effort in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, which left potentially toxic residue on residents’ homes.
Key decisions are increasingly determined by computers but there is a growing sense of unease about the transparency of the algorithms that power them, says John Thornton.
