Inside Housing - News - Details of next five-year Affordable …
WEB12 hours ago · Chancellor Rachel Reeves will present her first Budget on 30 October and Inside Housing understands that landlords will have to wait until next year for details of Labour’s retooled grant funding programme for affordable housebuilding.. This is because a new AHP is unlikely to be announced before the government’s Spring Spending Review, which sets the limits of department spending for the ...
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WEBSep 16, 2024 · The latest news, analysis, insight, expert comment, video and CPD learning from the UK social housing sector, provided by award-winning journalists.
Inside Housing - News - Social and affordable home targets in …
WEB4 days ago · It found that each new social and affordable home is estimated to cost £450,000, with the total cost to deliver potentially reaching £54bn. As a result, G15 members have seen a 76% drop in housing starts in London in 2023-24, compared with last year.. The group is calling for reforms that would allow housing associations to build more, “generating huge savings for government”, while ...
Inside Housing - News - Delays to London AHP mean more than …
WEB3 days ago · New annual data published by the London Assembly Housing Committee has revealed that 90% of all starts earmarked under the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021-26 need to happen in the next two years. This month the committee published its Affordable Housing Monitor report for 2023-24, showing how ...
What did conference tell us about Labour’s housing plans?
WEB11 hours ago · In its manifesto, Labour proposed two fiscal targets that have to be met by the end of the five-year forecast period. First, balancing the current budget so that day-to-day costs are met by revenues. Second, that debt should be falling as a share of GDP. On the face of it, the second of these leaves little room for capital investment because it ...
The housing crisis among the sector’s staff
WEB1 day ago · The sector’s personal housing crisis. Insight 26.09.24 7.15 AM by Katharine Swindells. An exclusive survey by Inside Housing has revealed that many social housing staff are battling housing insecurity and fearing homelessness themselves. Katharine Swindells digs into the findings. Picture: Alamy.
September 2024 digital edition of Inside Housing out now
WEB4 days ago · The September 2024 digital edition of Inside Housing is now available to subscribers #UKhousing. The lessons that must be learned from the final Grenfell Inquiry report; resident engagement special, including the young tenants fighting for their voices to be heard, Grand Union’s approach to learning about its residents and a look at the new ...
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WEBSep 20, 2024 · Estates regenerated using cross-subsidy model saw average rent increase of £80 per week, report finds. News20.09.24.
Annual affordable housing starts and completions hit new high
WEBSharelines. Affordable housing starts in England increased by 12% in 2022-23, to 71,046, a figure that marks the highest number since this data started being collected in 2015-16 #UKhousing. The latest government figures show the increase from last year’s total of 63,228 starts on site in England in the 12 months up to 31 March 2023.
Five key lessons from the housing data in Census 2021
WEBJan 6, 2023 · In 2021, 1.1 million households, or 4.3% of the population, lived in overcrowded homes, with fewer bedrooms than required. Some 26.5% of households had the number of bedrooms they needed and the remaining 69.2% had more bedrooms than required. In Wales, the proportion of overcrowded households was 2.2% compared with 4.4% in England.