Archive

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.

GNC to manage council homes in West Gorton

17 October 2008

Manchester City Council has contracted housing association Guinness Northern Counties to manage council homes in West Gorton, subject to tenants voting next year in favour of the housing stock transfer.

Student bar

17 October 2008

New proposals to tackle the 'studentification' of towns may have come too late.

Fixing the house

By Tim Williams

10 October 2008

Some free advice for Mrs Beckett

HCA could take a stake in housing

10 October 2008

England's regeneration super-agency could take equity stakes in homes built by housing associations, the quango's chairman said this week.

Cap student housing, says report

3 October 2008

Planning rules should be changed to cap the number of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in university towns in order to limit the damage caused by "studentification", a government-commissioned report says.