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Places and the Pandemic – the importance of where we live
This new report from HACT and Placeshapers gives an insight into the world of 100 social housing providers, during lockdown and their views suggests the…
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LA to set up a HA to access housing grant
Barking & Dagenham Council was awarded £25.3m in September from the London mayor’s Building Council Homes for Londoners fund. It was to develop these through…
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Development in small HAs
This is a useful documents from G320 (small HAs in London) who have explained their contribution and potential to support the increase in homes…
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Partnership working
Building Bridges is a report which has been developed by CIH and partners. It provides a guide to better partnership working between local authorities…
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Naylor Review- could we have an NHS owned HA?
Theresa May endorsed a review that urged the mass sale of NHS land for housing development and floated the creation of an NHS-owned housing…
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HA housebuilding 2015/16
Figures on housing association development are not independently recorded by government. The NHF is collecting development figures from members to provide an authoritative update on…
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Altair report suggests HAs are becoming more commercial
‘Future gazing, Future shaping: Insights into housing in 2025’, shows the housing sector is on a “trajectory of rapid change”. Here is the…
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NHF conference round up
This is a useful summary from Inside Housing of the 3 day HA conference: “The housing association sector’s leaders have converged on Birmingham for…
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Policy think tank advcates raised rents to build new homes
The largest housing associations should be allowed to raise rents in exchange for agreeing to build more homes, an influential thinktank has said. A…
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HAs request exit strategy from Shared Ownership due t risks after Brexit
Housing associations are pressuring government to guarantee an “exit strategy” in its new shared ownership programme, amid housing market uncertainty following the Brexit vote.…