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Gold standard on Homelessness rejected by all but 2% of LAs
Fewer than 2% of councils have completed a ‘bureaucratic’ £2.3m flagship programme aimed at improving homelessness services, nearly two years after it was launched.…
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Renters pay more than home owners
Someone who has been unable to get on the property ladder for the last five years would have paid nearly £4,000 more to rent…
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Can shared ownership help the housing crisis
Shared ownership could play a significant role in meeting our current housing crisis, and people’s aspirations to own their home, if we could increase…
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Conservative push ahead to gift HA homes to tenants
Investors could be driven away from the sector if the Conservatives push ahead with plans to ‘gift’ housing association homes to tenants. According to…
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Ways to support tenants to move home
The guardian has been having a good look at oportunities in whihc landlords can help tenants move – wiht some help from the CIH.…
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The Big Exchange – HAs working together
Stockport Homes in partnership with Contour Homes, Equity Housing Group, Johnnie Johnson Housing, Mossbank Homes, Guinness Northern Counties and Your Housing Group are holding…
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33,000 homes list to RTB since 2012
The country has lost 33,000 of its social homes to the controversial right to buy (RtB) scheme since the coalition ‘reinvigorated’ the policy in…
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Young people trapped in housing with support
Young people are finding themselves trapped in supported housing and unable to move on to independent living, a report by the YMCA has found.…
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Do LAs offer help for tenants to move?
Only three in 10 social landlords have used new flexibilities to help tenants transfer home, research has found. According to Inside Housing: A Chartered…
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1m on the waiting lists in marginal constituencies
More than one million people on council house waiting lists live in the top 100 marginal constituencies that will decide the general election, research…
