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Affordable housing cash to fund empty homes work
Tuesday 31st March 2009The Homes and Communities Agency is planning to fund councils to take enforcement action to bring empty homes back into ...
GHA transfers first homes to local groups
Tuesday 31st March 2009Legal agreements were signed on Monday for the transfer of Glasgow Housing Association homes to the first four community organisations. ...
Fed calls for £3bn efficiency scheme
Tuesday 31st March 2009The chief executive of the National Housing Federation has written to the chancellor calling for £3 billion to improve the ...
Mortgage lending hits eight-year low
Monday 23rd March 2009Mortgage lending fell to an eight-year low of £9.9 billion in February, from £11.7 billion the previous month. The Council ...
Property sales crucial for 59 housing associations
Monday 23rd March 2009Fifty-nine housing associations were entirely dependent on selling homes to generate a surplus last year. A report on housing association ...
A good start
Monday 23rd March 2009The Homes and Communities Agency became real for me when I came into our central London office early on the ...
The first 100 days of the HCA
Monday 23rd March 2009‘Yes, they can,’ seems to be the overwhelming verdict on the agency’s first 100 days – not that it’s been ...
Rising unemployment to drive repossessions
Monday 23rd March 2009The huge rise in unemployment in February could have a serious impact on homelessness and house repossessions, experts have warned. ...
HCA shifts cash to spend budget
Saturday 21st March 2009The Homes and Communities Agency is moving cash out of regions that have under-spent their affordable housing allocations in a ...
Campaigners warn homes pledge fall short
Saturday 21st March 2009The Scottish Government’s drive to swell the country’s affordable housing stock by at least 6,500 in the coming year does ...
£22 million fund set to tackle voids in London
Wednesday 11th March 2009The government is set to approve £22 million worth of funding to tackle empty homes in London. The money is ...