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Fire safety four years after the Grenfell Tower fire

Fire safety four years after the Grenfell Tower fire

November 24, 2021

In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster, the government focused its safety efforts on replacing ACM cladding (aluminium composite material) implicated in the fire. Even so, four years later, progress is still slow. In the social sector, 78 per cent of buildings affected have had remedial work completed but in the private sector the […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, housing finance, housing associations

The government commits billions to private housing – it’s time to fund social homes instead

The government commits billions to private housing – it’s time to fund social homes instead

April 7, 2019

How much has government housing investment been cut since 2010? Headlines at the time reported that it fell by 60% and many people’s impressions are that it has since stayed at something like that level. But as the UK Housing Review has shown by looking at the detailed figures over the last four years, the […]

Category: Housing | Tags: homeownership, housing associations, council housing, housing finance, housing investment

It’s time to look again at revenue support for new build

It’s time to look again at revenue support for new build

March 16, 2019

Everyone agrees we need to build more homes for social rent and last year the rules were changed so that both Homes England and the London Mayor can help finance them via capital grant. The problem is that the sheer scale of output required – as many as 90,000 new homes per year – means […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing finance, housing investment, housing associations

The loss of social homes must be stemmed

The loss of social homes must be stemmed

March 11, 2019

According to Crisis, to tackle new housing needs and address the backlog of overcrowding, sharing and unsatisfactory living conditions, we need to build 90,000 social rented homes per year in England. Yet currently we struggle to produce 5,000. This means that, far from meeting new needs, we’re not even building enough to replace the social […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, housing investment, housing associations

UK social housing performance over the last 30 years

UK social housing performance over the last 30 years

December 6, 2018

An article to celebrate 30 years of the magazine Social Housing. Social Housing magazine was a child of its time. Created in 1988 just as housing associations’ access to private finance was formalised, it was there both to report on what was happening and to provide guidance to everyone involved. It was a time of […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing investment, housing policy, housing associations | 2 Responses

The mess of government intervention in housing

The mess of government intervention in housing

November 22, 2018

Which housing tenure receives most subsidy? Inside Housing readers know that the question isn’t a simple one and that the obvious answer – social housing – isn’t necessarily correct. The quest for a full analysis has just been boosted by housing finance experts Peter Williams and Steve Wilcox, whose report Dreams and Reality looks not […]

Category: Housing | Tags: private rented sector, housing investment, housing benefit, homeownership, housing associations

'Reclassification' is the spectre in Irish housing

‘Reclassification’ is the spectre in Irish housing

November 19, 2018

Irish housing associations (‘approved housing bodies’) have had their finances reclassified so that they are part of local government, causing consternation in the sector at the threat of greater state control. This article is a response to this decision from a UK perspective, where housing associations recently faced a similar problem that has since been […]

Category: Housing | Tags: borrowing rules, housing finance, housing associations

Will housing receive a ‘red tape bonus’ from Brexit?

Will housing receive a ‘red tape bonus’ from Brexit?

August 4, 2018

Leaving the European Union is supposed to free us from red tape. Depending whether Brexit is hard or soft, it could give Britain more freedom to set its own rules. Will this be of any benefit to the housing sector? Let’s look at some of the possible changes. EU procurement rules are one example. Ending […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration policy, housing investment, housing associations

Encouraging messages, now Labour must work on the detail

Encouraging messages, now Labour must work on the detail

April 28, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn launched Labour’s affordable housing green paper last Thursday, promising one million new homes over ten years of which a significant number would be for social rent. The ambition was clear: funding will be restored to the level when Labour last held office, and councils will once again become “major deliverers” of social housing. […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing associations, council housing, borrowing rules, housing investment, housing policy, rents | 1 Response

Social rented housing is disappearing at a time we need it most

Social rented housing is disappearing at a time we need it most

February 1, 2018

Building of new homes for letting at social rents has fallen to a trickle – just 5,380 in the last financial year. The past five years have seen just 50,290 built altogether, most of these financed by social landlords without grant aid. Theresa May has promised to revive social renting “in those parts of the […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, housing investment, housing associations

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