What factors are responsible for the lack of affordable new homes? And does government intervention in the market help – or just push up prices more? asks Richard Disney.
The housing and health sectors need to align their services more closely, to house essential workers and improve the patient experience, says Andrew Van Doorn.
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 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.
Employers and the government should pay contributions to help employees save for a mortgage rather than pay pensions contributions, a report out today said.
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.
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 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.
The government’s ambition to build one million homes does not go far enough to meet the country’s true housing need, a Public Accounts Committee report has stated.
Local authorities have been given powers to crack down on rogue landlords including the ability to issue fines of up to £30,000, in a bid to help renters.
Brexit could bring Scotland’s plans for a new generation of social housing grinding to a halt, leaders of the Scottish housing association movement have warned.
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?
