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Housing contractor Wates Living Space is celebrating a multi-million pound extension to its repairs and maintenance work to 31,000 homes for Birmingham City Council. Over the past three years, its work for the council has included 338,578 housing repairs completed,... View Article

Ministers have launched a consultation on proposals to reduce the height of new high-rise blocks of flats where water sprinkler systems need to be installed as a legal requirement. The consultation closes on 28 November. It is also seeking views... View Article

The number of empty homes across the country rose significantly last year, increasing by more than five per cent as nearly 11,000 long-term empty homes were added to the total. The rate of increase was double the rise in 2017.... View Article

Ashford Borough Council has successfully applied for court orders at three separate properties which have all been associated with persistent drug use and anti-social behaviour. It is the first time that the council has brought three cases in one day... View Article

The latest quarterly survey from the Regulator of Social Housing shows that the sector’s overall strong financial position has been maintained despite weakening sales performance and concerns over increased safety costs. The regulator found the HA sector has access to... View Article

The Government is claiming it’s Rough Sleeping Initiative is having a significant impact on reducing the numbers of vulnerable people sleeping rough on the country’s streets. New analysis (which was independently peer reviewed by Bryson Purdon Social Research, an independent... View Article

Rules and processes designed to decide who gets access to social housing could be failing people in the greatest need, according to new research from the Chartered Institute of Housing. In ‘Rethinking Allocations’, CIH policy and practice officer Faye Greaves... View Article

The Government has revealed it wants to give housing association tenants the right to buy shares in their homes under proposals outlined at the Conservative Party Conference. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick announced that tenants should have the right to purchase... View Article

Nearly 85,000 households were being accommodated by English councils in B&B hotels and hostels at the end of March – the highest level in over a decade and a year after a piece of flagship legislation to combat it came... View Article

The full extent of the housing crisis blighting England has been laid bare by new research showing that an estimated 8.4 million people are living in an unaffordable, insecure or unsuitable home. This is equivalent to one in seven of... View Article