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In FocusRegen Connect interactive funding and development maps
As part of Regen Connect, Housing Today is monitoring regeneration announcements across the UK as they happen. Use our interactive maps of the UK and London to track the activity
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In FocusHow £10bn-turnover Czech giant Penta is using housing JVs to gain a foothold in the London market
Housing Today flies to Prague to speak to Marek Dospiva, co-founder of one of central Europe’s biggest companies, which has recently signed two JV deals for housing schemes with Ballymore in London and is eyeing further deals
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In FocusCIH vice-president election 2026: meet the candidates
Chartered Institute of Housing members can now vote in the election for the institute’s president taking up the post in 2027. Here is a guide to the five candidates and their manifestos
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In FocusFrom £50k homes to a £1bn platform: HSPG’s next phase in affordable housing
The social impact investor says a £1bn equity injection from Sixth Street into its for-profit provider PPHA will help it acquire around 4,000 homes and hold more stock for the long term. Guy Horne discusses HSPG’s journey
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In FocusMaking Senze: How sophisticated energy monitoring can cut social housing retrofit costs by 75%
Technology firm Senze has shown live home monitoring can cut retrofit costs by targeting improvements more accurately than flawed EPC assessments, raising questions over the government’s fabric-first funding model for social housing decarbonisation, Thomas Lane reports
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In FocusThe unlikely return of the back-to-back: how the viability crunch is leading to experimentation with older forms
As housing numbers crash, developers are seeking ways to reimagine projects, with a range of new – and old – forms being tried to move projects forward
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In Focus‘Don’t let inertia win.’ Key talking points from UKREiiF 2026
Nearly 17,000 people from the built environment, finance and local government trekked to a rainy and overcast Leeds for the annual real estate investment event this week. Here we round up the key takeaways
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In Focus‘As a sector we’re too slow – we’re living in an Amazon world’… Charley Gibbons reveals his plans for EMH Group
The East Midlands housing association has hired only its fourth chief executive in its 80-year history. The new boss explains how he wants to speed up services to improve customer satisfaction.
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In FocusHousing Today and G15 State of the Capital 2026 report
Housing Today publishes its second annual research report looking into ways of boosting affordable housing in London, in partnership with the G15
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In FocusKey talking points from CIH Housing Brighton 2026
What does the UK’s shifting political landscape mean for housing? How is the Iran war likely to impact delivery? How is the sector tackling the skills crisis and stigma of residents and how should providers respond to new regulations and standards? Carl Brown and Alex Funk round up the ...
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In FocusHow the Iran war is impacting construction and development
Joey Gardiner studies the numbers and asks how much damage has already been done to UK construction – and, talk of truces and ceasefires not withstanding – how bad things could still get?
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In FocusWhat would Reform and Green gains in Thursday’s elections mean for the housing sector?
With the two insurgent parties riding high in the polls and expected to be the biggest beneficiaries of Thursday’s local elections, Housing Today examines their policies and records in local government.
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In FocusKey talking points from CIH’s Tai 2026 conference
What will next week’s Senedd election mean for housing? Does Wales need a national development agency and a formal housing strategy? And does the sector have the skills to fuflfil the requirements of new legislation and standards? Alex Funk reports on the key issues raised at the Chartered Institute of ...
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In FocusRegeneration is back - but under a very different model: What the first three months of Regen Connect reveal
The first quarter of Regen Connect has tracked billions in funding, major project approvals and a shift in how regeneration is delivered across the UK. From devolution-led growth to viability pressures, it reveals a sector in transition and the forces reshaping how regeneration happens
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In FocusWhy L&G Affordable Homes believes partnership with Hyde is a blueprint for institutional investment in social housing at scale
New 50/50 joint venture is unusual in that it has been created with existing tenanted homes - with both parties sharing ownership. LGAH’s acquisitions MD Catherine Raynsford tells Daniel Gayne why this is important
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In FocusGreater Manchester regeneration: How the £2bn Good Growth Fund is transforming the UK’s fastest growing city region
The city region has grown at twice the rate of the rest of the country over the past decade after delivering a long-term regeneration vision. It is now looking to new mechanisms to share the wealth more evenly across the whole combined authority
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In FocusEamonn Boylan: Learnings from 40 years regenerating Manchester
Tributes have poured in since the untimely death of the much-loved former chief executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. His impact in the city and nationally was huge, and he spoke to Housing Today’s sister publication Building just last month, shortly before he died
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In FocusWhat the chancellor’s plan for regional devolution really means for cities
This month Rachel Reeves announced £2.3bn in additional funding for cities and a plan to devolve – for the first time – the power to keep tax revenues raised in local areas. Joey Gardiner poses the five questions that spell out what this could all mean for regeneration and development ...
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In FocusFrom Grenfell Inquiry to interim chief construction adviser: Thouria Istephan on why competence cuts across everything
As interim chief construction adviser, Thouria Istephan is using her short tenure to push for deep, systemic change – from professional standards to products reform and the future of the advisory role for her successor. In her first interview in the role she talks to Chloe McCulloch about why she ...
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In Focus‘I could walk you down a road where the average life expectancy drops by 20 years within a mile’ : Matt Forrest on regeneration opportunities and challenges in the Tees Valley
The post-industrial Tees Valley is a region with lots of potential regeneration opportunities but many acute challenges also. As part of Housing Today’s Voices of Regeneration series, the chair of the new Tees Valley Housing Partnership explains how it can fulfil its potential