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Hundred-year wait for family-size social housing in parts of England, study finds
09 Apr 2025 04:08 GMT
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Analysis from the National Housing Federation (NHF), Crisis and … the number in 2012.
Housing charities said families were … country’s three leading housing campaign groups urged the … right-to-buy scheme that will protect the stock of existing social housing …
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Something vital is missing from Labour’s housing policy: council houses
25 Mar 2025 10:34 GMT
… are either owned by housing associations or local authorities, … to end or devolve the right-to-buy scheme, which has seen … solution is providing council housing that protects individuals’ right … social and genuinely affordable housing.
With Labour’s current …
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TOPA’s Promise and Pitfalls: Balancing tenant rights, affordability, and housing investment in Washington, D.C.
14 Mar 2025 06:59 GMT
… investment in multifamily housing and hinder housing production. The … with clearer, more predictable real estate regulations.
Perhaps most significantly … Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington DC. 2016 … et al. v. Daro Realty, Inc., et al., …
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Housing Benefit freeze will see 'children growing up homeless', expert warns
14 Mar 2025 09:47 GMT
… changes to housing benefits, in particular Local Housing Allowance (LHA … What is Housing Benefit and LHA?
Previously, Housing Benefit was … a family’s housing benefit, or housing support element of … a lack of social housing since right-to-buy was introduced in …
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Five reasons the UK has a housing crisis
12 Mar 2025 05:51 GMT
… local authorities and housing associations have all dropped … affordable housebuilding
Affordable housing includes homes for sale … institute.
Secondly, the right-to-buy (RTB) policy implemented … short-term improvements in housing ownership, but effectively …
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The Guardian view on new housing: Labour must not let builders dictate terms
16 Feb 2025 17:45 GMT
… to support those in housing need are a pressing … scrambling to cope with soaring right-to-buy applications before the deadline, … homes. Angela Rayner, the housing minister, is fighting to make … a priority, with even housing associations cutting back partly due …
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Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff of 2024, a crisis hidden in plain sight
13 Feb 2025 08:31 GMT
… than 7,000% rise in right-to-buy (RTB) applications in November … and the map, showing right-to-buy applications over the course of … housebuilding. Starmer focuses on housing supply, about which the … inducing another drop in council housing. You really need an …
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Sheffield Council spending extra £3m on housing repairs and rent rise confirmed
07 Feb 2025 19:20 GMT
… rents.
Charges for sheltered housing, burglar alarms and … continuous improvement.
Seconding the housing revenue account report, council … a government change in right-to-buy deposits for tenants to … more of their housing stock.
Housing committee deputy chair …
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Government called to act now as thousands of North East children in private housing facing poverty
03 Feb 2025 00:22 GMT
… the lack of social housing since right-to-buy was introduced in … Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Social housing ensures that a … family's housing benefit, or housing support element of … establishing a new English housing tribunal to enforce new …
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Leeds City Council sees huge surge of tenants applying to buy homes after right-to-buy scheme changes
27 Jan 2025 17:25 GMT
… designed to protect social housing from being sold off were … Labour’s executive member for housing, said 2,500 was … board was told around 80 right-to-buy applications were usually received …
A consultation on further right-to-buy reforms was also launched by …