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    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Architecture
      Stirling Prize shortlist marks return to unassuming UK architecture

      Community centres, housing projects, a careful reimagining of an existing museum and a university faculty vie for award

      University of Warwick Faculty of Arts
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Climate targets lie in the dust unless construction can tap young talent

      The industry’s training infrastructure needs a rethink if it is to match scale of upskilling required

      A young woman drills into a plank of wood
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Social affairs
      Number in temporary housing in England hits 25-year high

      Homelessness rising sharply as rental and mortgage costs soar, official figures show

      People walk outside a hand-painted sign for a food bank in Leeds
    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      UK housebuilding
      Housebuilders cast doubt over UK government plan to deliver new homes

      Gove housing reforms earn mixed reception from industry and even own MPs

      Michael Gove
    • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      A warning for the smug mortgage bores

      Interest rate pain will come to us all in time — and it could well cost the Tories the next election

      A man in a T-shirt looks at houses for sale in the window of an estate agent
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      UK housebuilding
      Gove to speed up housing reforms to help tenants and leaseholders

      Bills to end ‘no fault’ evictions and change leasehold system before next election

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      UK immigration
      Forcing Afghan refugees from hotels risks homelessness, councils warn

      Local authority associations point to shortages of affordable housing across the UK

      Afghans living in London and their supporters  attend a protest called by Stand Up To Racism
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      Housing in London: damp, mould and high charges at Peabody properties

      Almost three dozen residents accuse one of the capital’s oldest housing associations of mismanagement

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      UK housebuilding
      UK threatens developers over failure to sign building safety contract

      Minister moves to ban 11 companies from housing market until they sign pledge prompted by Grenfell Tower fire

      Most of the developers on Michael Gove’s list of holdouts are expected to sign the contract
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      UK government spending
      Quarter of funds for UK levelling-up projects goes unspent

      Unused cash relates mostly to capital spending on housing or housing-related projects

      Construction worker on the roof of a house
    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Affordable housing at risk from new levy, say Church of England and charities

      In letter to Michael Gove, groups say changes to England’s planning system could hit provision of cheaper properties

      A house under construction
    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      UK property
      Property developers told to commit to £2bn UK repair scheme

      Companies have six weeks to sign up or face ‘serious consequences’

      Grenfell Tower covered, with a heart sign and the words: ‘Grenfell. Forever in our hearts’
    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      UK social housing review exposes ‘shockingly poor’ homes

      Call for audit of all 2.5mn homes in England and giving tenants a role in decision-making

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Renting property
      Protections for England’s tenants won’t be in place until 2023, says Gove

      UK housing secretary admits government should have ‘moved more quickly’ on renters’ rights in wake of Grenfell fire

      Michael Gove
    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      UK social housing rents set to rise 7% next year

      Government move to cap increase labelled ‘disastrous’ by housing charities

      Traditional social housing on a housing estate in Bristol
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Hashi Mohamed
      The housing crisis sits at the centre of Britain’s ills 

      We underrate the importance of firm foundations — and a place you can truly call home

      Harold MacMillan was tasked in 1951 with overseeing the UK’s housebuilding targets. The government over the past decade has struggled to grasp this issue
    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      Ministers plan tighter rent caps to protect social housing tenants

      Move to limit inflation-based rises in England would be part of wider push to blunt soaring cost of living

      A social housing estate in Leeds, UK
    • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
      Social affairs
      UK charities urge Sunak and Truss to act over homelessness ‘precipice’

      Next PM should ban ‘no-fault’ evictions and end rough sleeping by 2024, say 29 groups

      Two rough sleepers drag a mattress down the road in Mayfair on November 23 2020 in London
    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      Peabody Group
      Independent panel finds Peabody Trust overcharged leaseholders

      A report obtained by the FT highlights serious issues in how the housing association applies service charges

      The Colt, one of Peabody’s housing schemes in London
    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Britain’s housing crisis — no longer a nation of homeowners?

      Four books look beyond the clichés of the property boom to examine the precarious reality of those forced to rely on an overgrown private rental market

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Grenfell Tower disaster
      Landmark English court ruling finds contractor liable for cost of removing unsafe cladding

      Housing association awarded damages for remedial work on tower blocks in wake of Grenfell fire

      Cladding being removed from high-rise homes
    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Grenfell Tower disaster
      ‘People knew about the risks of fire’: Grenfell five years on

      Public inquiry into tragedy exposes disregard for safety and compromised regulatory regime

      People stand and pay their respects in front of a wall where messages of support have been written, surrounding Grenfell tower in west London on June 14 2020, on the third anniversary of the high-rise fire that killed 71 people
    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      LexProperty sector
      UK housing market: few will gain from benefits-to-bricks plan Premium content

      Taking on a big mortgage is risky when incomes are falling and house prices are slowing

      ‘For sale’ signs in Birstall, West Yorkshire
    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      Edwin Heathcote
      Channelling the Nimby spirit won’t fix Britain’s housing problems

      Government proposals allowing residents to vote on new developments are full of holes

      Streets of residential houses are seen from the air
    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      Boris Johnson seeks to revive ‘Right to Buy’ plans for housing association tenants

      Prime minister keen to shift public focus away from ‘partygate’ scandal ahead of Thursday’s local elections

      A residential tower block in an area of Lambeth with a high concentration of social housing on August 28 2014 in London, England
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