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Labour – green paper for housing
Here is Labour’s green paper for housing. The government will publish their paper in the summer. Housing-for-the-Many-final Some interesting ideas include: the real definition…
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Real estate investment trust and Homes England update
The Private rented sector REIT, which buys properties to be rented on the private market, issued an interim dividend for the period to 31…
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Budget 2017
This is a useful document from CIH on what you may want to know about the housing budget: What you need to know about…
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ONS has declassified HAs, their debt will be taken off the governments records
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reclassified housing associations as private. The communities secretary announcde that “the government is taking housing associations’ debt…
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Forward Policy on Housing?
Here is a useful round up of forward policy from the Conservative party conference. Thanks to CIH for this: What you need to know…
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Low income families and home purchase
The Social Mobility Commission, an advisory body to the government, concluded that low-cost homeownership schemes are “unlikely to increase ownership among low-income groups”. Drawing…
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IPPR’s own manifesto for electoral change
IPPR sets out a series of practical and progressive recommendations for change, to help any and all political parties deliver the change Britain needs…
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Review of Housing and the Economy – where are we?
Here is a useful upate from our friends at service matters on the lay of the land – econmically which impact on housing: …
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Reglators concerns over risk and deregulation from 6th April 17
Fiona MacGregor, executive director of regulation at the Homes and Communities Agencysaid to indide Housing “This basically transfers quite a lot of the risk from…
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The Budget – what does it mean for housing providers?
This is a useful summary – an on the day briefing from the NHC: Introduction The Chancellor gave his first – and last Spring…
