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LA setting up Housebuilding companies
Almost a quarter of councils in England have invested £130m in setting up 58 new housebuilding companies since 2012, according to research by Inside…
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Lessons from Europe on small housebuilding
IPPR have studied the problems facing English SME builders, with mutually reinforcing problems: the planning system, the land market, and insufficient access to finance.…
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HCA CEO warns that HAs will be scrutinised on housing supply
CEO Nick Walkley of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has warned housing associations to expect scrutiny over housing supply which they “haven’t been subject…
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Is rent to buy working for the housing market?
Inside Housing have been doing an investigation into take up. Here are some headlines on what they found: Responding to an Inside Housing survey of Rent…
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Southern HAs pitch for sub market borrowing of £100 billion
Some HAs have got together to make a pitch for a new borrowing scheme for sub-market housing, to government officials looking for potential solutions to…
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Interventions to solve house building
The government should invest in housing factories as part of a string of interventions to solve the housing crisis, the localis thinktank has urged.…
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HCA keen on public/private partnerships for new home delivery
Sir Edward Lister, chair of the Homes and Communities Agency was speaking a the launch of a report on public/private partnerships for housebuilding at…
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Could the government support housing factories?
In a report, Localis called on the government to make it easier for councils to re-designate green belt land to encourage more housing, start…
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Local Housing Companies: report
The latest report from the Smith Institute makes a case for more investment in Local Housing Companies. They say “This report attempts to capture…
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Housing – what do you need to find out?
CIH have completed a briefing aimed at housing research. Here is their briefing: What you need to know about research It is aimed at…
