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Regulator 'could have saved Ujima'

1 August 2008

Social housing regulator the Housing Corporation should have intervened sooner to prevent the collapse earlier this year of the UK's largest black-led housing association, an independent inquiry has found.

Few votes for Glasgow homes transfer predicted

1 August 2008

Only one in four of Glasgow's social housing tenants will vote to transfer to community-led landlords, the regeneration head of the city's housing association has predicted.

Exclusive - EP short of money as crunch bites

1 August 2008

Regeneration is set to be scaled back amid a predicted £30 million fall in revenue at England's national regeneration agency.

5 steps to ... appointing a letting agent

25 July 2008

1. Check the agent belongs to a professional body. This is usually the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) for commercial letting agents and the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) for residential agents.

Home help

By Karen Buck

25 July 2008

Use market forces to help homeless

Plan to remove SW green belt status

25 July 2008

Green belt land in parts of the South-West could be used for housing developments under government plans.

Super-quango bill approved by MPs

25 July 2008

The new Homes and Communities Agency super-quango will launch in early December after the legislation needed to establish it entered the statute book this week.

Moving up the food chain

By Stuart Watson

25 July 2008

Smaller bodies delivering regeneration skills and training are being swallowed up by bigger ones.

Build housing to suit city markets, says think-tank

18 July 2008

Ministers must tailor new housing to the needs of individual cities' economies if the Government is to get close to meeting its housing targets, a report warned last week.

Migration worries not racist, say MPs

18 July 2008

Rapid inward migration can have a negative impact on community cohesion, MPs said this week.