social rent

Government acts to protect renters and rough sleepers during coronavirus outbreak

19.03.2020

Laura Edgar

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak renters and landlords will be protected from losing their homes and unmanageable debts. He has also committed funds to protect those who are sleeping rough.

Affordable housing / Shutterstock_519502300

Inquiry launched into social and affordable rented housing

03.06.2019

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | England | Housing | housing communities and local government committee | social rent

The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HLCG) Committee has launched an inquiry to investigate the effectiveness of the government’s strategies to boost social and affordable rented housing provision.

England round-up: Hayes introduces land compensation bill to Parliament; England-only post Brexit environmental watchdog flawed

01.03.2019

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news in England: 23 February-1 March, 2019

New social rent deal announced

28.02.2019

Laura Edgar

Housing minister Kit Malthouse has announced a long-term social housing rent deal to increase the quantity and improve the quality of social housing.

Building social housing could have saved £1.8bn in rent

18.02.2019

Laura Edgar

New analysis suggests that £1.8 billion would have been cut from the housing benefit bill had the government built 100,000 social rent homes in each of the past 20 years.

More than 150,000 social rent homes lost in six years

07.02.2019

Laura Edgar

Over the past six years more than 165,000 homes for social rent have been lost in England. This breaks down to 140,828 council homes and 57,869 housing association homes.

Scotland overwhelmed by demand for social rent homes

17.12.2018

Huw Morris

Housing | Scotland | social rent

Scotland urgently needs to build more homes for social rent to meet overwhelming demand, according to research by Scape Procure Scotland.

20% of England’s homes are for private rent

12.07.2018

Laura Edgar

England | home ownership | Housing | private rent | social rent

The government’s English Housing Survey suggests that the private rented sector accounted for 20 per cent of households in England in 2016/17.

Khan launches ‘modern comeback for council housing’

16.05.2018

Laura Edgar

council homes | Housing | London | sadiq khan | social rent

The Mayor of London has introduced a programme that aims to get 10,000 new council homes under way over the next four years.

Young families face a lifetime of renting / iStock-546201806

Millennials face a lifetime of renting, claims report

18.04.2018

Laura Edgar

The private rented sector needs to be ‘radically reformed’ to ensure that it can accommodate families raising children and people who are retired because young people face never owning their own home, according to the Resolution Foundation.

Pages