All G15 articles
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News‘Early engagement is essential’ - G15 publishes guide for housebuilders seeking section 106 deals
New report by London housing association group is latest attempt to tackle section 106 slowdown
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CommentWe need a new approach to funding affordable housing – simply tweaking grant rates won’t shift the dial in London
Housing Today and G15’s proposal for an amortising grant model is already causing a stir in the sector. Paul Hackett explains why it potentially has huge benefits to providers and the Treasury
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NewsHousing Today and G15 call on ministers to explore new grant funding model
Move towards amortised grant could help London’s housing associations develop while limiting increases in government balance sheet debt
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News‘Grip the housing crisis or accept managed decline’ G15 chair tells government
Fiona Fletcher-Smith warns government 1.5m homes target is under threat unless ministers act to restores financial certainty to social housing sector
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NewsRayner’s plan to speed up remediation won't work without more funding, warn G15 and NHF
MHCLG will work with sector to produce a long-term strategy to fix social housing blocks
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NewsNotting Hill Genesis appoints executives to three new roles
67,500-home landlord creats new positions as part of three-year Better Together strategy
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NewsG15 warns of ‘impossible dilemma’ threatening community schemes worth £23m in social value a year
Housing association group says future of its members community projects in doubt without government support
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NewsMore than 300,000 London households on waiting lists for social housing
Centre for London and the G15 are calling for £15bn funding per year to deliver 33,000 social rent homes a year
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NewsHousing associations will need £54bn to deliver social housing targets in the London Plan, G15 says
The G15 has urged the government to help it leverage more private finance through a 10-year rent settlement and access to the Building Safety Fund
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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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NewsSector welcomes Labour’s planning overhaul and reintroduction of mandatory housing targets
Major housing associations, councils and housebuilders react to new government’s first major policy announcement
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NewsG15 and Housing Today to partner at Westminster event in September
Housing Today Live is also backed by the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Housing Forum
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NewsNotting Hill Genesis to reduce development to 600 homes a year
Landlord increases projected spend on existing stock from £500m to £770m over the next 10 years
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NewsLack of social rented homes in London costing £7.7bn in lost social value, say G15
New research aims to quantify economic and social benefits of social rented homes
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NewsRent policy changes put 300,000 social homes at risk of becoming unsustainable, warns G15
Inequalities to social rents have cost London’s largest housing associations more than £2bn, housing association group says
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NewsG15 chair writes to Gove to rebut claims of ‘widespread abuse of service charges’ by social landlords in London
Fiona Fletcher-Smith wrote to Gove regarding ‘comments and accusations’ made against housing associations in a letter from Sir George Howarth MP
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NewsG15 urges government to commit to a 10-year rent settlement in the spring budget
London’s leading housing associations have set out measures to ensure ’long-term certainty’
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NewsG15 calls for £15bn a year in AHP grant funding amid steep drop in starts
Starts on affordable homes in London have dropped by 76% compared to last year
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NewsGovernment should create ‘flying squad’ of viability experts for section 106 deals, report says
Centre for London report says viability experts are needed in complex s106 negotiations
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NewsLondon housing leaders call for £2.2bn in extra funding to avert delivery slowdown
The London Housing Taskforce has set out 29 proposals to safeguard the delivery of thousands of homes.