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Comprehensive Spending Review and Housing
Here are some good summaries of the spending review: CSR_2015_-_Member_Briefing What you need to know about the spending review and autumn statement 2015 Focusing…
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Housing Bill completes in House of Commons
Measures to extend the Right to Buy and force councils to sell their expensive homes have been voted through in the House of Commons. Yesterday,…
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DCLG agreed a 8% cut a year for the next 4 years
The Department for Communities and Local Government is one of four departments to have agreed to average savings in budgets today. The departments has…
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What you need to know about the housing bill
Many useful summaies are starting to emerge. Here are 2 of them: From service matters: Housing and Planning Bill 2015-16 Summary and. From CIH:…
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Pay to Stay consultation paper
Social tenants will not face an immediate hike to market rents when they cross the Pay to Stay threshold. In a consultation paper, the…
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About the Housing and Planning bill
The government has published the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 setting out its proposals to increase home ownership and boost levels of house building.…
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Charity Commission concerns over Voluntary RTB
The Charity Commission has raised concerns over the National Housing Federation’s voluntary offer to extend Right to Buy to housing association tenants. In a…
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Government thinks CEOs in HAs should be shared to reuce costs
Housing associations should consider sharing chief executives in order to save cash, Brandon Lewis has said. Speaking to Inside Housing at the Conservative Party…
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Nationalisation of HAs
Statistics are in the news for the housing sector at the moment, not for their own sake, but because of their significance to the…
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Devolution requests from LAs and requests on rents and RTB
A coalition of councils representing England’s eight largest city economies outside London has called for greater devolution of housing policy and funding, but warned…
