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23.10.2017
As the government begins to talk seriously about backing council house building once again, Ian Graves says it's more than just money and promises that are needed
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09.06.2016
Two Northern Ireland housing associations have secured £280 million of long term loans from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to build nearly 5,000 new social homes.
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09.06.2016
Ireland's housing and planning minister Simon Coveney insisted this week that responding to the housing crisis would require fast-track planning.
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11.02.2016
In the postwar heyday of house building, councils built more homes than private developers. Now, at the height of a housing crisis, their contribution to numbers is negligible. Mark Smulian ask why councils...
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15.01.2016affordable | England | Housing | Housing and Planning Bill | starter homes | the challenge of housing
Sensible response to the housing shortage or "audacious social policy experiment"? David Blackman considers the ramifications of the government's 'Starter Homes' initiative
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25.11.2015
London is heading for an economic and social crisis because housing is becoming so unaffordable to workers on average and below average salaries, an MP has claimed.
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07.04.2015affordable | Birmingham City Council | Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust | Development Management & Enforcement | Housing | West Midlands
If we're to meet the nation's housing needs, councils need to start building affordable homes again, argues Birmingham City Council planner Lesley Sheldrake. A scheme in the city is leading the way
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24.03.2015affordable | Andrew Adonis | council | Development Management & Enforcement | England | Housing | Housing | IPPR | London | Social infrastructure
London council estates should be demolished to make way for ‘city villages’ with more homes built at higher densities, shadow infrastructure minister Lord Andrew Adonis will argue at the launch of a new publication tonight (Tuesday).
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26.09.2014
Revisions to the Scottish Planning Policy have thrown open the debate on affordable housing quotas, says Shelter Scotland's Liz Shiel
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11.04.2014
A pact to deliver 10,000 affordable homes by 2016 has been signed by the Welsh Government and Community Housing Cymru, which represents the nation's housing associations.
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