A council has been seeking to change its housing rules so it could tackle a backlog and give shelter to the most vulnerable ...

A council's attempts to bring the management of its 11,500 social homes back in-house have taken another step forward. A ...

Plans to build student flats on top of a Tube station have been approved again after a technicality meant they had to be ...

Over the summer we saw several claims circulating about social and council housing, and in particular housing waiting lists. Social and council housing are often used interchangeably, but it’s worth ...

We are in the depths of the worst housing crisis since the Second World War, but there is a solution which has worked before and will work again – building council housing. Today, to push the issue ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Local authorities have urged the UK government to “wake the sleeping giant of housebuilding” by allowing ...

Angela Rayner is is expected to set up a 'council housing revolution' as she is handed almost £1biillion in next week's budget. The deputy prime minister is planning to double council house building ...

Southwark Council suspended its plan to directly allocate properties to people waiting for housing, admitting it “goes against our values of openness and transparency”. Three families on the council’s ...

Its figures are absent from our story this year – the council refused to respond to our FOI request. Birmingham stated that it intends to release data on its building programme this month, but “it ...

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