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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 …
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Rent goes up for Sheffield Council tenants while hundreds of homes to be lost due to right-to-buy this year
23 Jan 2025 16:23 GMT
… with the Regulator of Social Housing’s Rent Standard of September … 7 per cent
The sheltered housing service charge is increased by … per cent
The council’s Housing Revenue Account (HRA) business … lose around 800 homes to right-to-buy over the next 12 months …
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Labour faces costs of £50bn to replenish affordable housing after right to buy, report says
15 Jan 2025 07:00 GMT
… right-to-buy scheme has left Britain with the legacy of a social housing … .
Publishing its latest housing outlook report on Wednesday … landlords.”
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government … action to reform the right-to-buy scheme to make …
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Demand for council house right-to-buy sales could be higher than expected in West Lancs
22 Dec 2024 15:07 GMT
… housing update report assumed a recent rate of 40 right-to-buy … 39;hundreds' of right-to-buy applications since a recent announcement … about the assumption on right-to-buy sales. There are … announcement. The appetite for right-to-buy seems strong. One of …
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Stevenage sees 'surge' in right-to-buy applications before council home discount ends
17 Dec 2024 10:20 GMT
… the discount available on right-to-buy properties would be … the discount available on right-to-buy properties would be … housing chief, said the change means revenues generated from right-to-buy … be seen how many [right-to-buy] applications will be …
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Angela Rayner's OTHER housing policy: Deputy Prime Minister 'is to move into Winston Churchill's old Westminster home Admiralty House'
14 Dec 2024 16:16 GMT
… tax when she sold her Right-to-Buy home in 2015 and made … over her plans to bulldoze housing regulations in order to fasttrack …
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Meet the last man standing on UK's loneliest housing estate
04 Dec 2024 12:15 GMT
… branded Britain's loneliest housing estate has told Sky News … in 2017 under the discounted right-to-buy scheme and is now mortgage …
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UK government announces easier social housing access for veterans
28 Nov 2024 15:17 GMT
… veterans seeking social housing, facilitating easier access to housing support across the … in using right-to-buy proceeds and an additional £450m to secure housing for … and stimulating economic growth.
UK Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook …