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Andy Burnham pledges 10,000 new council homes by 2028 in Greater Manchester as he unveils plans to tackle the housing crisis

|Date: 9 May, 2024

Andy Burnham pledges 10,000 new council homes by 2028 in Greater Manchester as he unveils plans to tackle the housing crisis

Newly re-elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has made tackling the housing crisis a top pr ...

Newly re-elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has made tackling the housing crisis a top priority for his third term, unveiling measures to increase the amount of social housing in the c ...

9 May, 2024
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Boroughs concerned by decision on Right to Buy rules and emphasise ‘desperate need’ for replacement homes

|Date: 12 March, 2024

Boroughs concerned by decision on Right to Buy rules and emphasise ‘desperate need’ for replacement homes

London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the Government’s decision to stop letting local author ...

London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the Government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep all money raised from council house sales, warning that it will undermine efforts to ...

12 March, 2024
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Significant funding boost for Sheffield retrofit project

|Date: 15 August, 2023

Significant funding boost for Sheffield retrofit project

A partnership led by EN:Able Communities has been awarded more than £250,000 of funding from the Departme ...

A partnership led by EN:Able Communities has been awarded more than £250,000 of funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to help retrofit Right To Buy (RTB) properties to make them ...

15 August, 2023
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Long-awaited Right to Buy rules changes a ‘shot in the arm’ for council housing

|Date: 4 April, 2023

Long-awaited Right to Buy rules changes a ‘shot in the arm’ for council housing

London Councils has welcomed the new relaxation of restrictions on how local authorities use the money ra ...

London Councils has welcomed the new relaxation of restrictions on how local authorities use the money raised through Right to Buy sales. The cross-party group says policy changes announced by the Gov ...

4 April, 2023
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Industry Comment | Right to Buy — the case for reform

|Date: 28 March, 2023

Industry Comment | Right to Buy — the case for reform

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing, discusses the findings ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing, discusses the findings of research commissioned from Savills by ARCH, the LGA and NFA into Right to Buy, which present ...

28 March, 2023
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Budget 2023: Boroughs warn at least one child in every London classroom is homeless

|Date: 15 March, 2023

Budget 2023: Boroughs warn at least one child in every London classroom is homeless

On average at least one child in every classroom in the capital is homeless, according to new analysis fr ...

On average at least one child in every classroom in the capital is homeless, according to new analysis from London Councils. The latest figures gathered by the cross-party group reveal worsening homel ...

15 March, 2023
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Legal Update | RTB receipts drive resurgence in council housing

|Date: 13 June, 2022

Legal Update | RTB receipts drive resurgence in council housing

Local authorities are increasingly using right to buy receipts to purchase rather than build council hous ...

Local authorities are increasingly using right to buy receipts to purchase rather than build council housing, says Charlotte Cook, Partner in the Social Housing team at Winckworth Sherwood. Local auth ...

13 June, 2022
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New measures to level up England’s cities and provide new homes

|Date: 17 December, 2020

New measures to level up England’s cities and provide new homes

New measures to level up England’s cities, recover from the pandemic and help provide much-needed new hom ...

New measures to level up England’s cities, recover from the pandemic and help provide much-needed new homes have been set out by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. Following a consultation launched in ...

17 December, 2020
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ALMOs ready to meet post-pandemic explosion in housing need

|Date: 28 April, 2020

ALMOs ready to meet post-pandemic explosion in housing need

Council-owned housing companies ramped up their new-build housing targets by more than 70% in the space o ...

Council-owned housing companies ramped up their new-build housing targets by more than 70% in the space of just 12 months, a survey published by the National Federation of ALMOS (NFA) reveals. “While ...

28 April, 2020
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Six things social housing providers need to consider in 2020

|Date: 10 January, 2020

Six things social housing providers need to consider in 2020

2019 has been one of the most tumultuous years of the past decade, with Brexit again dominating the natio ...

2019 has been one of the most tumultuous years of the past decade, with Brexit again dominating the national conversation. But social housing providers have had to contend with much more. What does 20 ...

10 January, 2020
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