The highly anticipated green paper on social housing was released Tuesday 14th August 2018, within it some key implications for the social housing sector. There has already been significant focus…
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Local Authority Right to Buy: Using, not losing your RTB receipts
Liz Anderson breaks down the rules governing how local authorities can use right to buy (RTB) receipts. The Government introduced a new RTB policy in March 2012 “Reinvigorating RTB”. This…
Are you ready for the financial challenges ahead?
January has always been a time for fresh starts and new plans and is generally a great opportunity to take control of the year ahead. Whilst 2016 has surely taught…
What the sector should make of the Autumn Statement
Well we didn’t quite get Christmas come early, but we did get some very important signals from the Autumn Statement and the other recent housing related announcements on what to…
Autumn Statement 2016: The key facts
There has been a flurry of news relating to the housing sector in recent weeks, culminating in yesterday’s Autumn Statement. In this article, we summarise the main facts: Pay to…
The Autumn Statement focusses mainly on proposals to help those ‘just about managing’ but what about the ‘not managing’ and supported housing provision?
The announcements in the Autumn Statement focused mainly on proposals to help those ‘just about managing’. For those housing providers and local authorities in England, who are trying to support…