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Treasury Select Committee calls for HRA borrowing cap to be abolished

|Date: 23 January, 2018

Treasury Select Committee calls for HRA borrowing cap to be abolished

The Treasury Select Committee has published a report on the Autumn Budget 2017 which calls for the Housin ...

The Treasury Select Committee has published a report on the Autumn Budget 2017 which calls for the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap to be abolished. In the Autumn Budget 2017, the Government rais ...

23 January, 2018
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New study reveals local authorities are becoming increasingly engaged in housing delivery

|Date: 12 December, 2017

New study reveals local authorities are becoming increasingly engaged in housing delivery

A new study, Local authority direct provision of housing, has found that 91% of local authorities in Engl ...

A new study, Local authority direct provision of housing, has found that 91% of local authorities in England — of all political leaning and size — are engaged in providing homes in some form or anothe ...

12 December, 2017
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It is essential we support councils to build homes again in much greater numbers

|Date: 27 April, 2017

It is essential we support councils to build homes again in much greater numbers

There was much to commend in the Government's Housing White Paper, at least in its overall vision, says D ...

There was much to commend in the Government's Housing White Paper, at least in its overall vision, says David Pipe, Policy Officer at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), but it's essential counc ...

27 April, 2017
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