Some councils appear to be taking advantage of what they see as a loophole in the legislation regarding the Housing Revenue Account. But such attempts are not only morally wrong, they are legally...
Labour would reform council funding to ensure money goes to those parts of the country with the greatest need, shadow local government secretary Hilary Benn has said today
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said that a Labour government would abolish the controversial ‘bedroom tax’, which cuts Housing Benefit paid to social housing tenants deemed to have spare rooms.
Cuts to the money county councils receive from the government’s New Homes Bonus will hit the delivery of vital infrastructure projects such as rural broadband and transport schemes, ministers have...
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg today said he ‘understands’ the need to build more homes across the country, and pledged to examine what could be done to free councils to build more homes.
The Bank of England has been urged to adopt the aim of limiting annual house price inflation in the UK to 5%, in a bid to ensure ‘stability’ in the cost of homes
Restrictions placed on councils by central government are stopping town halls from tackling rogue landlords, the Local Government Information Unit warned today.
MPs have slammed the social housing regulator for his reluctance to downgrade the financial viability ratings given to landlords, warning that ‘nobody would have a clue’ if a housing association was...
Housing experts have queried a plan by the London borough of Camden to use council tax to stop international investors from speculatively buying homes and then leaving them empty.
Councils in England have today warned that Treasury schemes to help people get mortgages risk creating a ‘housing bubble’ unless action is also taken to increase the number of homes.
The Local Government Association has reiterated calls for financial restrictions that prevent councils from building more homes to be lifted after government figures showed the number of new homes...
Local authority spending in England will have fallen back close to 2007/08 levels this year, according to figures from CIPFA and the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Campaigners against the ‘bedroom tax’ have lost a High Court challenge, it emerged today. Judges ruled that the changes to Housing Benefit rules did not unlawfully discriminate against disabled...
Local authorities should gain new powers to ‘drive out’ bad landlords from the private rented housing sector and reclaim Housing Benefit when property conditions fall below legal standards, MPs said...
Families on lower incomes cannot afford to privately rent a modest home in a third of Britain’s local authority areas and councils need to act to mitigate the problem, the Resolution Foundation said...
The man who promised to 'intervene before breakfast, lunch and dinner' is back, and demanding a new local growth plan. Lord Heseltine talked to Judy Hirst ahead of the Spending Review
The government will fund or guarantee £300bn of capital spending by the end of the decade, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
The Housing Revenue Account subsidy system is to be scrapped in Wales and councils put on a par with their English counterparts and made self-financing in terms of housing, the Treasury announced...
