The previous government's Regional Spatial Strategies were abolished because they did not result in more houses being built. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles told MPs yesterday
Auditors have called for action to improve housing and support services for people with mental health needs in Wales, after finding an ‘unacceptable’ lack of progress on the issue
The Department for Communities and Local Government has withdrawn £1.9bn of funding from 13 planned Private Finance Initiative housing projects, it was announced today
David Cameron was quizzed about the Comprehensive Spending Review by senior MPs this afternoon, resulting in a particularly lively tussle over the changes to Housing Benefit.
Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
Households in almost a third of councils outside London will lose £50 a month or more as a result of the government’s Housing Benefit caps, a housing and homelessness charity has claimed.
The government misjudged the opposition from Conservative London councils to its social housing cuts, a leading public policy expert has told Public Finance.
The Housing Benefit bill is likely to soar after Chancellor George Osborne confirmed that rents for new social housing tenants will rise to 80% of the market rate, Public Finance has learnt
Councils are urging ministers not to cut capital grants for social housing, warning that a failure to invest now will only increase costs in the long term.
Councils have welcomed a government pledge to press ahead with plans to scrap the Housing Revenue Account but have warned ministers not to saddle local authorities with unsustainable levels of debt...
Communities in rural areas hoping to develop their own housing projects will need to win the support of 75% of voters, housing minister Grant Shapps has confirmed.
Social housing provider Lovell has paid £28m to acquire the majority of Connaught Partnerships' social housing contracts and assets, it was announced today
Local government minister Bob Neill has claimed there is not ‘a shred of evidence’ that this week’s collapse of social housing maintenance firm Connaught was linked to the scale and pace of...
Cuts to housing benefit announced in the June emergency Budget have been slammed by poverty and housing campaigners after a new study found that the move would push thousands deeper into poverty
Sir Bob Kerslake, the chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency, has been appointed permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government
A conservative think-tank has criticised the government’s policy on housing for being ‘not radical enough’, and has called for a wide-ranging shake-up to cut public spending by an estimated £20bn a...
