Local authorities should have more power to build homes to support people most in need, and ministers must avoid targets that focus purely on the number of properties built, MPs have said.
The government is unlikely to hit its target for delivering affordable homes in rural areas, because wider market issues have had “a disproportionate impact” there, a senior civil servant has warned...
Sustained long-term funding and higher local authority retention of right-to-buy sales hold the key to meeting affordable homes targets, experts have said.
The government has proposed a temporary cap on social housing rent rises next year to help tenants already under “considerable pressure” from the cost-of-living crisis.
London boroughs have spent more than £150m over the past year to bring more than 1,500 homes back into the public sector, replacing stock depleted by the right-to-buy scheme, the city’s mayor has...
Levelling up secretary Michael Gove was unable to confirm how the government will fund the proposed expansion of the right-to-buy scheme, but urged MPs to “watch this space”.
Proposals to expand the right-to-buy scheme to housing associations and earmark national infrastructure levy income for new social housing have sparked funding concerns among councils.
A council in south west England will borrow up to £10m to fund “critical” temporary accommodation to house homeless families amid the cost-of-living crisis.
Levelling up minister Michael Gove has suggested that the government could fail to hit its manifesto pledge to provide 300,000 new homes a year by 2025.
Boris Johnson is “very excited” by the prospect of allowing people who live in housing association properties to buy their homes at a discounted price, in plans critics have called “hare-brained”.
Proposals to abolish section 106 charges in favour of a new infrastructure tax could disincentivise investment in poorer regions, working against 'levelling up', according to experts....
Better scrutiny of housing benefit and enforcement in supported housing appeared to improve the service’s value for money in five pilot schemes, but opportunities for future savings remain...
Social housing conditions have deteriorated in part because housing associations have become accountable to investors in the City, rather than to tenants, sector experts told MPs this week.
A London council has begun a ‘key amnesty’ aiming to reduce tenancy fraud, promising “no questions asked” of those who have been using council homes illegally.
Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
The London Borough of Merton is set to relinquish property sale income on a £1.2bn joint-venture, after a funding gap emerged in the project last year.
