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Council to Offer Affordable Housing "Deals"
Friday 28th November 2008Councils to offer affordable housing ‘deals’ Councils could offer thousands of affordable housing deals to help key workers and first ...
Oldham ALMO to become association
Friday 28th November 2008Oldham Council has agreed to convert its arm’s-length management organisation into a housing association to secure its financial future. The ...
Millions pledged to lift the gloom
Friday 28th November 2008Alistair Darling is to bring forward another £775 million for housing and regeneration, as part of a £20 billion spending ...
Last gasp bid to save inspections
Friday 28th November 2008A major funding body with similar powers to the Homes and Communities Agency was almost set up five years ago ...
VAT cut offers major savings
Friday 28th November 2008Housing associations could save £30 million next year after the rate of VAT was slashed in the pre-Budget report. Chancellor ...
Landlords net cheap EU bank loan
Friday 28th November 2008The Housing Finance Corporation has secured a £100 million loan from the European Investment Bank to fund regeneration projects for ...
Agencies will not be government lapdogs
Friday 28th November 2008The new social housing regulator and investor vowed the agencies would avoid becoming tools to ‘enforce the will of government’, ...
The Housing Corporation this week published findings from its October housing association financial health survey. It reported:
Friday 28th November 2008• Associations are planning to make £1.2 billion from property sales, mainly shared ownership, over the next year. • They ...
Services cut as funds dry up
Friday 28th November 2008Cash-strapped housing associations are replacing weekly home support visits with drop-in surgeries to bridge the widening gap between costs and ...
Benefit Reforms will hit social tenants
Friday 28th November 2008Legislation to force unemployed people back into work has been unveiled by the government. The Welfare Reform Bill gives legal ...
Plans in Motion
Saturday 15th November 2008Developers in the East of England have come up with plans to build more than 200,000 homes. The developers have ...
Kensington & Chelsea Council
Saturday 15th November 2008A London Council is thinking about transferring its Homes from an Arms Length Management Organisation to increase investment in its ...
New Homes Stand Empty
Saturday 15th November 2008Homes built by housing associations to help people onto the property Ladder have remained unsold for more than six months. ...
Recruitment Slows to a Standstill
Saturday 15th November 2008Overall job creation in the UK is a ‘virtual standstill’, according to a report published today. 721 employers were surveyed ...
Overcrowding is spilling over from Social Housing into Shared Ownership
Wednesday 12th November 2008Karen Buck MP said the tumbling housing market was trapping shared owners in properties they could not sell. One of ...