social housing

The number of new homes under construction across Northern Ireland was up by more than 25 per cent towards the end of last year, suggest latest official figures.

Planning and housing minister Simon Coveney insisted this week that the administration had made a “good start” in terms of providing more social housing and at a faster rate.

Nearly 250,000 of the cheapest rented homes could be lost between 2012 and 2020 in England, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH).