All affordable housing articles – Page 3
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NewsCardiff-based housing association secures £25m loan to deliver 300 affordable homes
Hafod Housing has secured a loan facility from Principality building society
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NewsPublic believes more upfront investment in infrastructure needed to support social housebuilding, survey finds
Places for People’s pre-election survey found that more than 50% of people worry about the strain that housebuilding would put on existing infrastructure
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NewsSNG and Captiva Homes agree £30m deal for Isle of Wight scheme
This will be the first large-scale ‘all-affordable’ homes development built on the island in a decade
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NewsReport commissioned by Labour proposes introduction of private rent caps
Labour has responded to the report stating that rent controls are not official party policy but that action does need to be taken to protect renters
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NewsMayor of London calls for £2.2bn emergency funding as starts plummet
Khan has criticised ministers for failing to act and put into public investment ’a stalling market’
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NewsScottish government to declare national housing emergency
This is Scottish Labour’s second attempt to push MSPs to formally acknowledge the housing crisis
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NewsCIH Brighton: Homes England ‘building up pipeline to push for funding programme post-election’
Agency keen to demonstrate appetite from sector after hundreds of millions handed back last year
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NewsNext London mayor should review fast-track planning route for affordable housing, says HBF
The trade association says the mechanism is ‘more hindrance than help’, as voters head to the polls.
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NewsLabour to unveil golden rules for building on ‘grey belt’
The policy has the potential to unlock land to build hundreds of thousands of new homes, says Knight Frank
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NewsAndy Street pledges to triple social housing delivery if re-elected as West Midlands mayor
Polling shows uphill battle for incumbent in fight for West Midlands mayoralty
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NewsRent controls and homelessness duties outlined in new Scottish Housing Bill
The Scottish government introduces landmark legislation
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CommentHow do we respond to the devastating affordable housing funding cuts in Scotland?
The social housing sector in Scotland is reeling from a 26% cut to affordable housing funding. But what can the sector do in response? asks Ryan Barclay
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NewsCIH Scotland to announce housing emergency at national conference
Last week the Scottish government cut affordable housing supply budget by almost £200m
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NewsG15 urges government to commit to a 10-year rent settlement in the spring budget
London’s leading housing associations have set out measures to ensure ’long-term certainty’
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NewsL&Q and Countryside to deliver almost 4,000 homes at former Ford factory site
With the addition of 947 homes, the revised plans for Beam Park will now deliver 3,947 new homes
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In Focus‘The figures on starts are terrifying’. What’s really happening to the Affordable Homes Programme
The government has admitted that it will not hit its development targets. Joey Gardiner asks what’s really going on and looks at how the situation can turn around
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NewsHomes England appoints new affordable housing director
Shahi Islam will take over from Jackie Jacob, who is set to retire at the end of this month
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NewsHousing starts and completions down on same period last year, Homes England data shows
In the first six months of the financial year, housing starts have seen sharpest decline
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NewsHomes England opens next round of bidding for Affordable Homes Programme
There are increased investment opportunities due to market sentiment, Homes England says