The government's affordable housing strategy ran into trouble this week when the Ministry of Defence admitted it could not stop 25 homes at an Essex army barracks being sold off.
Fraudulent housing benefit claims could be costing taxpayers billions of pounds each year but some councils have done nothing to remedy the problem, the minister in charge of the government's anti-...
Private developers cannot be relied upon to build the thousands of affordable homes needed in the Southeast and other parts of England, housing professionals were told this week.
Local authorities could raise an extra £65m under new government proposals to end the automatic entitlement to a 50% council tax discount for second homes.
England's pensioners missed out on almost £1.9bn last year, largely because the government failed to inform them of the range of benefits available, according to the National Audit Office.
A £200m 'challenge fund' set up by the government to encourage housing associations to provide more affordable homes in Southeast England has been five times oversubscribed.
Tony Blair's big political ideas for the next 12 months have drawn immediate criticism following their unveiling at the state opening of Parliament this week.
The visibly deteriorating state of council housing is a political predicament that has haunted successive governments.
In Scotland, the issue of how to tackle an outstanding repair and investment...
Another local authority has pulled out of the government's stock transfer programme because it would prefer to find other ways of improving its housing.
John Prescott was this week unveiling long-awaited planning reforms just as his housing minister firmly indicated that Labour had failed to meet its affordable housing objectives.
Naïve housing associations are rushing into risky deals over key worker accommodation, a leading lender said this week.
Malcolm Kitchener, a general manager at Nationwide Building Society,...
Senior figures at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister this week said they were 'open to any suggestions' that would improve the supply of affordable housing.
Appearing before the Commons' urban...
Crucial parts of government plans for housing finance need to go back to the drawing board, according to the Local Government Association.
In the consultation paper, The way forward for housing...
When Norman Perry became chief executive of the Housing Corporation two years ago, one of his first tasks was to oversee the setting up of a new inspectorate.
Up to one-third of homes owned by registered social landlords need to be improved to meet the decent homes standard, according to two new studies by the Housing Corporation.
Housing minister Lord Rooker has threatened to ignore the advice of government lawyers and publicly support stock transfers before tenants have been balloted by their local authority.
