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Value for money – anyone interested?
Inside Housing has completed a survey to show that landlords are not meeting regulatory standards. Two thirds of social landlords are yet to meet…
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Larger Right to Buy discounts risk depleting stock
The scramble to net properties under last year’s reinvigorated right-to-buy continues. Autumn figures show that councils sold an estimated 2,149 dwellings under the scheme…
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Research states – we need an extra 145, 000 homes per year
Analysis from the census in 2011, published today by Town and County Planning Association, shows housing requirements are on average around 240,000 – 245,000…
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HCA CEO says regulation does not stand in the way of innovation
Since I took up my post as chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency in April, I have done a great deal of listening to…
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Plan for a tougher stance on those who cheat on benefits
Kier Starmer QC said a ‘tough stance’ was needed on benefit fraud, which costs taxpayers £1.9bn each year. Individuals suspected of benefit fraud can…
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Payday lender – regulator to get sharper teeth
A new regulator for payday lenders will have ‘much sharper teeth’ to issue unlimited fines to lenders and order them to pay money back…
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NHF CEO says its time to get political over housing
We’re rapidly approaching conference season. The Liberal Democrats travel north to Glasgow (and some big bedroom tax demonstrations) from 14 September. Labour returns to…
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New training for 1200 tenants on tenant management organsiations
Communities Minister Don Foster has announced that the Department for Communities and Local Government will pay £404,000 for 1,200 tenants to attend training on setting up tenant…
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CLG results on troubled families programme
The DCLG has published its latest set of results for the Troubled Families programme, which is helping to change the lifestyles of 120,000 ‘problem’ households. So far 13,999 families have had…
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United Nations expresses concern about impact of welfare reform
United Nations housing ‘Rapporteur’ Raquel Rolnik, has ‘expressed serious concern‘ about a deterioration in the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing across the United…
