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Social Housing Green Paper – a new deal for social housing
The government has published the paper today: A_new_deal_for_social_housing_web_accessible The government has said with its publication: “The social housing green paper proposes fundamental reform to…
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Right to Buy – Green paper Consultation
The government wants to support local authorities to build more affordable homes and has produced this consultation to invite views on options to change…
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Social Housing Regulator – Green paper call for evidence
The social housing green paper sets out the governments intention to carry out a review of regulation of social housing to ensure it remains fit for…
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Government interventions
In June 2018 CfPS convened a roundtable to discuss central Government intervention in local government. We attended this as a CfPS Advisory Board member…
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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…
