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HCA to quiz social landlords over spending

31 October 2008

Registered social landlords that have been allocated money for the next two years to build social housing are to be quizzed by the new housing and regeneration super-agency to ensure that they will be able to spend it.

Ministers study state banks' mortgage policy

31 October 2008

The Government is considering how recently nationalised banks might stimulate the housing market, communities minister Iain Wright told Regeneration & Renewal's Northern Regeneration Summit last week.

Carbon definition likely to be DCLG's, says expert

31 October 2008

The cross-government definition of zero carbon is highly likely to fall in line with the DCLG's current definition, an expert has said.

Short of stirling?

31 October 2008

Expert review of Riba's 2008 Stirling prize winner. With photo slideshow.

Keynesian conversion

By Sir Peter Hall

31 October 2008

Europe shows the way to eco-towns

Fast money

By Richard Garlick

31 October 2008

Accelerated spending could come at a cost

Going spare?

By Sir Peter Hall

24 October 2008

Surplus flats may soon be needed

You can buy land, minister tells HCA

24 October 2008

The nascent regeneration super-quango could bring forward future years' funding to take advantage of falling property prices and buy land at bargain prices, junior housing minister Iain Wright has said.

Theory vs reality

By Sir Peter Hall

17 October 2008

Housing crisis is a textbook failure

Johnson 'unlikely to hit' housing target

17 October 2008

The credit crunch means that London mayor Boris Johnson is unlikely to meet his target of building 50,000 affordable homes by 2011, housing experts told the London Assembly this week.