English local authorities will continue to receive extra government funding to tackle homelessness in their area until 2015, housing minister Grant Shapps has revealed.
The Bank of England should move beyond the narrow inflation measure ‘that did nothing to prevent the deepest recession for almost 70 years’, a leading think-tank said today.
Councils have been urged to be ‘flexible’ about affordable home requirements in developments to encourage more private investment in rented properties.
Councils could be forced to reopen planning agreements made with house builders if deals agreed before the economic downturn are holding up developments, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has...
Scottish ministers have published figures showing that Scotland is building council houses at more than five times the per capita rate found in England.
Councils should be given control of the Housing Benefit budget and use it to build new, affordable housing, the Institute for Public Policy Research has said.
Private landlords should be given tax breaks to encourage them to provide cheaper long-term accommodation for people on low incomes, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said today.
Councils have urged the government to drop proposals that would allow property developers to renegotiate infrastructure commitments made in planning deals.
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English city councils should be given more powers over housing to enable them to play a greater role in the supply of new and decent homes, the Institute for Public Policy Research said today.
The Public Accounts Committee today called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure, saying some of the private sector profits were ‘difficult...
The aim of the infrastructure code isn’t just to help councils finish their Whole of Government Accounts. It should also to help them manage their assets better
The abolition of the Housing Revenue Account subsidy system later this week will free up councils to invest more in affordable homes, the Local Government Association has said.
Council house tenants in England will be able to buy their homes with discounts of up to £75,000 under the ‘rebooted’ right to buy scheme, ministers have announced.
The government has finalised the amount that councils will have to pay to take control of council house rents in their area, with payments lower than originally planned.
The good news is that the government is scrapping the much-hated Housing Revenue Account from April. The less good news is that the Treasury, not councils, could still end up in the driving seat
