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In FocusA labour of love: My work as a housing and employment officer
Not many councils have a housing and employment officer, but Monica Chabria is one. In the first of our Frontline Stories series, she tells Olivia Barber about the role
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NewsReading Council set to wind down ‘unviable’ housing company
The local authority says the wholly-owned Homes for Reading has missed two loan repayments
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NewsCouncils given new powers to tax empty homes
The empty homes premium will apply after one year, rather than the current two years
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NewsFresh £450m funding round opens for council refugee housing scheme with focus on new-build
DLUHC wants half of properties delivered through the Local Authority Housing Fund round three to be new homes
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NewsCrawley council declares housing emergency after vote
Motion passed amid ‘concerning’ acceleration of temporary accommodation problem
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NewsCrawley Council set to declare housing emergency
West Sussex town facing surge in demand for temporary accommodation
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NewsHousing secretary intervenes to prevent Surrey council from withdrawing local plan
Rowley said withdrawal of the local plan would result in the council having one of the oldest adopted local plans in the country
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NewsNumber of people in temporary accommodation up 14%
The rate of homelessness in England has increased from 1 in 208 in 2022, to 1 in 182 this year
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NewsRegulator of Social Housing publishes guidance on Tenant Satisfaction Measures
RSH will evaluate TSM requirements for providers with fewer than 1,000 homes following voluntary pilot
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NewsHousing Forum calls on government to scrap planning validation checklists
Validation checklists “not working well” and should be replaced with simpler planning statement system, says housing membership body
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NewsSix complaints made to statistics regulator about ombudsman’s maladministration rate data
Housing figures raise concerns about Housing Ombudsman’s ‘misuse’ of statistics to publicly rate landlords
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NewsGreen light for further 356 affordable homes at Custom House project in east London
The second phase of Newham Council’s £300m regeneration scheme was awarded outline planning permission
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NewsBarnet Council seeks partner for £145m Grahame Park Estate regeneration
Plans for the north-eastern site include the construction of 505 new homes of mixed tenure
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NewsDorset council in talks with Inland administrators to salvage 161-home scheme
The future of the £46m on-site Carter’s Quay project is unclear following Inland collapse
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NewsCouncil leader hits back at housing minister in local plan row
Spelthorne Council has accused the government of planning “chaos” after minister blocked alleged attempt to withdraw draft plan
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NewsBerkeley Group set to agree deal for £2.2bn Birmingham regeneration
Developer named as preferred bidder for 20-year scheme providing 7,000 homes on the Ladywood Estate
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News10,000-home Tewkesbury garden town plan paused
The new Liberal Democrat council leader of Tewkesbury Borough Council has announced a ‘gateway review’ of the development
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NewsMP says housing targets should specify affordable numbers
Public Accounts Committee chair speaks out in wake of controversy over watering down of central targets