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UK social housing

  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    How Reform’s anti-asylum message won over Durham’s former mining communities

    Populist party is already taking credit for a Home Office contractor’s pause in asylum placements

    General view of Stanley front street
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    England’s social housing funds ‘less generous’ than £39bn settlement suggests

    Analysis indicates spending of about £3bn a year until 2029, similar to AHP’s money for current financial year

    A council-owned housing estate in the Hartcliffe area of Bristol, England
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    UK spending review
    Reeves plans ‘housing bank’ to deliver cheaper financing for builders

    UK chancellor also considers funding settlement of up to £25bn for social housing in Wednesday’s spending review

    Scaffolding around houses under construction
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Grenfell Tower disaster
    Companies sued for £360mn in damages over Grenfell Tower fire

    Kensington and Chelsea council in London launches lawsuits against businesses involved in refurbishing the building

    A memorial wall for Grenfell
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    UK cladding fund fix would enable 90,000 affordable homes, councils say

    Letter to ministers points out that schemes to reimburse dangerous material removal exclude social housing

    A man removes cladding from a tower block in Sheffield, Yorkshire
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK property
    One-bed flats unaffordable for key workers across half of England

    New nurses, teachers and healthcare assistants priced out of market completely in London, analysis of official figures finds

    A housing construction site in Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    UK National Wealth Fund boosts support for energy efficiency in social housing

    Rebranded UK Infrastructure Bank will guarantee loans from insurer Rothesay

    Technicians service an air source heat pump
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Grenfell Tower disaster
    UK seeks to ban companies named in Grenfell report from government contracts

    Public inquiry into deadly fire triggers proposals to reform way construction materials are tested and regulated

    Grenfell Tower covered in scaffolding and a sign saying “Grenfell forever in our hearts”
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    UK local government finance
    English councils’ spending on emergency housing surges

    Near-80% jump in expenditure to £732mn reflects increasingly acute homelessness crisis, says charity

    Families marching in Westminster in 2022, protesting against temporary housing, holding up a ‘viscous housing circle’ placard
  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
    Edwin Heathcote
    The best Grenfell memorial would be ensuring it never happens again

    If the remains of the west London tower block come down, it should prompt more and better building for social housing

    Grenfell Tower is seen from Latimer Road Tube station in west London
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    News in-depthUK housebuilding
    London hit by record downturn in affordable housing

    High inflation, interest rates and building safety costs are driving collapse in construction

    High-rise apartment buildings under construction dominate the skyline over older low-rise waterfront homes in Canary Wharf, London.
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    UK government sets new deadline to fix unsafe cladding on residential buildings

    Landlords that fail to meet deadline will face ‘severe penalties’, says housing ministry

    A construction worker stands on a scaffold inspecting cladding at residential apartments in London
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Treasury confirms plans for inflation-busting rise in UK social housing rents

    Rachel Reeves also announces £500mn cash boost to promote building of affordable homes

    House building site
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    UK housebuilders to be given deadline to fix dangerous cladding

    Government will say developers must start work on unsafe tower blocks within 18 months

    Grenfell Tower and public memorial
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Barbara Lane
    The Grenfell tragedy exposed an entire industry’s lack of accountability

    It is critical that we embed a system-wide, holistic approach to fire safety 

    Bereaved relatives look at pictures of the Grenfell Tower fire victims during a press conference by the Grenfell Next of Kin group
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    ExplainerGrenfell Tower disaster
    ‘Incompetence, dishonesty and greed’: Key findings of Grenfell report

    Fire inquiry points blame at cladding companies and past government ministers

    Grenfell Tower
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Grenfell Tower disaster
    ‘Decades of failure’ by UK government led to Grenfell fire, report finds

    Successive administrations failed to hold companies manufacturing building products to reliable safety standards

    The fire at Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    UK chancellor plans to raise social rents to boost affordable housebuilding

    Move aims to give councils and housing associations more certainty over cash flows

    Row of five Council Tower blocks that run along side New John Street in Birmingham
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    The State of Britain
    Stockport’s housing saga mirrors wider challenge for Labour planning reform Premium content

    The town faces the same Nimbyism and conflicting attitudes towards the greenbelt that stifle much of the national debate

    Stockport market hall
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Right to Buy scheme must be scrapped to ease UK social housing crisis, says JLL

    Property consultant urges next government to end sale of discounted council homes to tenants

    Blocks of flats in Bristol
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    John Plender
    Rent controls will not fix Britain’s housing crisis

    Addressing property taxes that favour owner-occupation would be more productive

    A street in Islington
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Tackling homelessness needs to start from the evidence

    Policymakers should harness political will to end crisis and confront its causes, rather than reacting to its consequences

    A homeless person’s tent in London
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    News in-depthUK housebuilding
    Housing associations in England warn ‘we can’t build houses’

    Non-profit groups say slowdown in activity has been worsened by higher interest rates

    Houses under construction in Wakefield
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    UK property
    Ministers move to delay end of ‘no fault’ evictions in England

    Promise to scrap ‘section 21’ notices was 2019 Tory party manifesto pledge

    Campaigners rally outside parliament in support of the renters reform bill in October
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    UK politics
    Record numbers in England faced homelessness in 2023 over ‘no-fault’ evictions

    Figure was up by more than a third from 2019, new data show, as MPs debate renters’ reform bill

    Some 15,000 people faced homelessness as a result of a Section 21 notice in the third quarter of 2023, according to homeless charity Shelter
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