Public-private partnerships suffered a new blow this week when the London Borough of Brent rejected a multimillion pound Private Finance Initiative education project because it did not provide value...
Cynics who criticised a proposed race equality code of practice for RSLs have been largely silenced, according to the chair of the inquiry team that drew it up.
Housing stock transfers have become too process-driven and do not provide enough choice for tenants, social landlords at the National Housing Federation conference in Birmingham were told.
Years of financial mismanagement and political chaos have earned the London Borough of Hackney the dubious distinction of being the first local authority to face a central government takeover.
Nearly half of all council services that have had a Best Value inspection have been judged unlikely to improve or worse, according to the Audit Commission.
New social landlords set up following stock transfers from local councils are being warned against relying on former housing department staff to fill their leading posts.
Sir George Young, the former transport and housing minister, is the early front-runner to replace David Davis as chair of Westminster's principal audit body, the Public Accounts Committee but...
The Northeast will be the focus of the campaign for directly elected mayors, with Prime Minister Tony Blair's constituency Sedgefield confirming that it will join three other neighbouring boroughs...
Local authorities fear they may be excluded from crucial decision-making after housing associations dominated a government programme to provide low-cost housing for more than 11,000 key public sector...
Paramilitary intimidation made 1,900 Northern Ireland families homeless last year, according to the annual report of the Housing Executive published last week.
Unions have given a lukewarm welcome to government plans for a £250m sweetener for teachers based in the Southeast who are priced out of jobs because of escalating property prices.
Public sector workers are threatening industrial action in protest over Newcastle City Council's moves towards greater partnership with the private sector.
Refugee groups have called on the Home Office to give councils more cash towards the dispersal of asylum seekers following the murder of a Kurdish man in Glasgow this week.
The Housing Corporation is making important strides to employ more women and people from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups at all levels of the organisation, says chief executive Norman Perry.
