Cuts to social housing rents announced by Chancellor George Osborne will be of little or no benefit to most of the 3.9 million tenants in the sector, but will save the Treasury around £1.7bn, an...
Further details of plans to sell high-value council houses to fund the extension of Right to Buy to housing association tenants has been revealed in legislation introduced to parliament.
Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to boost home ownership as part of what he called a “turnaround decade” in Britain, with planning changes set to regard a programme of ‘...
The country needs thousands of new homes and providing them is a government policy priority. So why have the Conservatives announced measures that will lead to fewer homes being built by social...
Plans to lower social housing rents by 1% a year for the next four years could lead to as many as 42,000 fewer homes being built across the country, the government has been warned.
Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to cut social housing rents by 1% in each of the next four years will cost local authorities a total of £2.6bn in lost revenue, a study by the Local...
The need to build more houses is overwhelming, but we need to move on from traditional models of delivery. Councils can create the conditions for new development to thrive.
Policy Exchange has encouraged politicians from all parties to develop a plan to improve the condition of Britain’s social housing estates. The think-tank said decades of neglect had led to social...
The chancellor had little to offer providers of social housing in the Budget. But smarter procurement practices can help avoid the need for damaging cutbacks
David Cameron’s plans to curtail migrants’ rights to social housing have the appearance of being thought up quickly and not thought through properly. There are much better ways to...
