All affordable housing articles – Page 2
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NewsWest of Scotland Housing Association boss to retire next year
Brian Gannon has announced he will be stepping down as chief executive of the Glasgow-based housing association in spring 2025
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NewsHousing sector welcomes Northern Ireland draft programme for government as ‘starting point’
But bodies stress the need for sufficient funding to deliver more affordable housing
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NewsAster’s surplus hit by higher interest costs and writedowns
The housing association’s pre-tax profit falls 14% due to a combination of an increase in costs caused by inflation and an ‘all-time high’ investment in its homes
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NewsG15 stresses sector’s ‘desperate need for certainty’ and calls for 10-year rent settlement
London’s largest housing associations has warned that to continue delivering affordable homes, it needs rent policy certainty
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NewsCompetition regulator to review GMCA’s brownfield housing scheme
Scheme will provide £500m in subsidies to providers developing brownfield sites in Greater Manchester
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NewsScottish Empty Homes Partnership brings record number of homes back into use
The partnership is part of the Scottish government’s commitment to bringing empty homes back into use as affordable housing
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NewsClarion gets go-ahead for redevelopment of former London Chest Hospital
Latimer is set to deliver 274 new homes at the site, 50% of which will be affordable
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News‘Unburdened’ for-profits have ‘more appetite’ for partnership deals, says Vistry boss
Stephen Teagle contrasts financially burdened traditional housing associations with for-profit providers
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CommentAfter the Labour landslide, it’s time to rebuild
The housing sector must now work with Keir Starmer’s ministers to make its voice heard and get the economic lifeblood of our communities flowing again, writes Kate Smith
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NewsJigsaw Homes resumes 131-home development stalled by Ilke Homes going into administration
Morro Partnerships has taken over as the contractor to complete the scheme
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NewsFor-profit provider backed by social impact fund appoints Richard McCarthy as chair
FAHHA appoints former senior civil servant, who has also served as CEO of the National Housing Federation and Peabody
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NewsRural communities ‘held back’ by high house prices, Stonewater survey finds
People in rural communities also highlighted a lack of public transport and public services as barriers to living in the countryside
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NewsBromford and Flagship reveal plans to merge
Under the proposals, the two housing providers would come together to form a 78,000-home provider called Bromford Flagship
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NewsCardiff-based housing association secures £25m loan to deliver 300 affordable homes
Hafod Housing has secured a loan facility from Principality building society
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NewsPublic believes more upfront investment in infrastructure needed to support social housebuilding, survey finds
Places for People’s pre-election survey found that more than 50% of people worry about the strain that housebuilding would put on existing infrastructure
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NewsSNG and Captiva Homes agree £30m deal for Isle of Wight scheme
This will be the first large-scale ‘all-affordable’ homes development built on the island in a decade
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NewsReport commissioned by Labour proposes introduction of private rent caps
Labour has responded to the report stating that rent controls are not official party policy but that action does need to be taken to protect renters
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NewsMayor of London calls for £2.2bn emergency funding as starts plummet
Khan has criticised ministers for failing to act and put into public investment ’a stalling market’
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NewsScottish government to declare national housing emergency
This is Scottish Labour’s second attempt to push MSPs to formally acknowledge the housing crisis
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NewsCIH Brighton: Homes England ‘building up pipeline to push for funding programme post-election’
Agency keen to demonstrate appetite from sector after hundreds of millions handed back last year