£10bn for housing with 60% social renting is at odds with PM’s previous call for programme to be spent entirely on social homesMinisters are looking at “a range of support” for vulnerable households struggling with rising bills,...
Read More£10bn for housing with 60% social renting is at odds with PM’s previous call for programme to be spent entirely on social homesGood morning and welcome to the UK politics live blog.The government has set out its plans to spend...
Read MorePlan part of a wider policy to remove foreign nationals from social homes and prioritise young British-born couplesSocial housing tenants will be evicted if they fail to keep their gardens well maintained under a Reform...
Read MoreUK-born married couples under 35 with children would get priority under proposals to be outlined by Farage’s partyBritish citizens who were born abroad would be made to wait longer for social housing under proposals to be...
Read MoreHousing charity says move would drive up homelessness, while Labour dismisses proposal as ‘unworkable’Plans to ban foreign nationals from social housing under a Conservative government have been condemned as “divisive”.Under...
Read MoreWith 1.5m families waiting for social housing and Labour’s building targets already falling short, the challenge is hugeFrom the front garden of the red-brick terrace where she has lived for nearly three decades, Coral McKeown,...
Read MoreWith 1.5m families waiting for social housing and Labour’s building targets already falling short, the challenge is hugeFrom the front garden of the red-brick terrace where she has lived for nearly three decades, Coral McKeown,...
Read More2-8A Rutland Gate had jewel-encrusted bathroom suites and gold wastepaper bins in its 45 rooms, but has lain empty for years. With many people desperate for secure housing, what does the abandonment of this palace tell us about...
Read MoreGovernment-funded JobsPlus trial in 10 neighbourhoods could be scalable nationwide, evaluation showsWe would like to hear from young people in the UK about their job-hunting experiencesA government-funded pilot of “hyperlocal”...
Read MoreResearch shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity saysIt would take more than a century to clear the social housing waiting lists in England at the...
Read MoreIn the 1980s, Labour-controlled London built 52,000 council homes. During the Tony Blair decade, just 280. It’s brought this local-election catastrophe on itselfOver the week to come, journalists will repeat three things until...
Read MoreIt was life-affirming to meet the residents of Rainbow Way in Minehead. But so much still stands in the way of Labour’s vision for social housing I met Carole Guscott, a retired former carer, on a clear winter’s morning in the...
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