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With build-to-rent on the back foot, can major regeneration schemes still stack up?

Retailer John Lewis blamed its decision to scrap plans to build 10,000 BTR homes on a ‘fundamental shift’ in economic conditions. Joey Gardiner wonders what the future is for this vital sector

Inside West Yorkshire’s quiet renaissance: A regional deep dive into the forces transforming its cities

Devolution is giving Leeds, Bradford and the surrounding local authorities the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Joey Gardiner profiles West Yorkshire, its funding streams, community priorities, key clients and active consultants

A new era for regeneration: Housing Forum’s Alex Notay on funding models, patient capital and the future of placemaking

As pressures mount across planning, funding and delivery, new Housing Forum CEO and Regen Connect advisory panellist Alex Notay outlines why the sector must step beyond traditional silos to unlock regeneration at scale. Carl Brown reports

Key talking points from CIH Scotland’s Housing Festival 2026

Debates surrounding the upcoming election, immigration, Scotland’s new housing agency and net zero featured heavily throughout the annual conference. Alex Funk reports

The Housing Today Good Employer Guide 2026

Housing Today today publishes its online directory and digital supplement showcasing the good employers in the housing association sector

The Housing Today Good Employer Guide 2026: What does the data say?

Housing Today’s first ever directory of good housing association employers highlights trends and initiatives around pay, benefits, skills and development, wellbeing policies and much more. Carl Brown pulls out the key themes

Culture, customers and working in Ceaușescu’s orphanages: Nick Apetroaie shares his housing journey

The chief executive of Accent Housing has built his career on a principle of person-centred care. He explains his vision to Carl Brown, and how his outlook was shaped by growing up under a dictatorship in his native Romania

Miliband’s ambitious Warm Homes Plan arrives with public confidence in retrofit at a low ebb

The embarrassing failures of the ECO scheme have given retrofit a bad name, but its cancellation hit good and bad installers alike. Together, they put the government in a tricky spot to effect a mass roll-out of new energy efficiency measures, reports Daniel Gayne

The regeneration rethink: funding, power and the local leaders shaping what comes next

For over a decade, built environment policy has prioritised new build over regenerating places. As Housing Today launches its new Regen Connect editorial campaign, Joey Gardiner finds out why that might all be about to change

‘The cliff edge has probably been reached’ … When the Warm Homes Plan finally arrives, will there be an industry left to deliver it?

Reports suggest the upcoming plan will see a big move towards low carbon technologies and shift in emphasis from grant to regulation. But industry figures say its long delay and the cancellation of the ECO scheme last year could leave DESNZ without the workforce to deliver its goals.

Social housing’s top 200 biggest spenders on repairs and maintenance in 2024/25

The Regulator of Social Housing has published its annual global accounts data for the 200 largest registered providers in England. But who spent the most in 2024/25? Use our sortable data table to find out.

‘I’ve always had a feeling for people and doing the right thing’: New CIH president Julie Haydon on building resilience

Wolverhampton Homes’ director of corporate services has a blueprint to boost mental wellbeing among social housing workers. Speaking to Alex Funk, she discusses how to tackle workforce burnout