RIGHT TO BUY
Pennycook confirms fresh Right to Buy restrictions
By Emily Twinch | 04 July 2025
Tenants of newly built social homes will not be able to buy their homes through Right to Buy (RtB) for 35 years, the housing minister Matthew Pennycook has confirmed.
FINANCE
Funding: That is the question
By Rob Whiteman | 05 March 2025
Making the sector more financially resilient is a more crucial issue than reorganisation, says Ro...
POLITICS
Budget: Reeves attempts to drive up affordable homes
By William Eichler | 30 October 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed a raft of measures to tackle the ‘desperate lack of afford...
HOUSING
Rayner to be handed £1bn for council housing in Budget, reports suggest
By Emily Twinch | 21 October 2024
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will be handed £1bn in next week’s Budget as she plans to dou...
POLITICS
Warm words but little in the way of answers
By Heather Jameson | 26 September 2024
The Starmer Government has clearly framed the issues but so far has very little in the way of ans...
HOUSING
Rayner hints at 'fairer' Right to Buy
By Martin Ford | 23 September 2024
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has hinted at incoming curbs on Right to Buy at the Labour Pa...
RIGHT TO BUY
Districts urge Government to make Right to Buy flexibilities permanent
By Emily Twinch | 11 September 2024
Flexibilities on how councils can use their Right to Buy (RtB) receipts should be made permanent,...
HOUSING
Councils call for £644m cash injection into housing
By Emily Twinch | 03 September 2024
Councils have urged the Government to plough £644m of capital funding into housing in England whi...
HOUSING
How to unleash a new generation of council housing
By Tracy Bingham | 06 August 2024
There are financial pressures mounting on the Housing Revenue Account that could hold councils ba...
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