Uk & International

Councils and housing associations across London are to be given support to buy former council homes from the private sector that can be used to resettle families arriving from Afghanistan The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is expanding his new Right to Buy-back fund to help councils buy homes

Cross-party MPs and national homelessness charity Crisis are today urging the UK Government to scrap the law that criminalises rough sleeping, six months after housing secretary Robert Jenrick said it should be “consigned to history”.  Already repe

Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, has promised to block overseas property investors if he is re-elected as the country's leader. He has vowed to impose a two-year ban on foreign home buyers if he is re-elected, in a bid to address the affordability of homes in Canada.

The UK Government is to bring in tighter guidance for planning authorities in England as part of a package of actions to better protect and prepare communities for flooding.

More than 140 councils across England have been awarded a share of over £13 million to help find longer-term accommodation for prison leavers. The announcement comes a week after a UK Government-backed scheme was launched to provide temporary, basic accommodation to prison leavers as part

New legislation to be introduced in England and Wales will give homeowners twice as long to claim compensation for dangerous cladding or poor workmanship in light of the Grenfell tragedy. The Building Safety Bill, to be published today, will create a clear pathway for how residential buildings shoul

Clarion Housing Group has apologised to its tenants after an ITV investigation revealed squalid conditions inside hundreds of properties on a housing estate in south London.  Families living on the Eastfields Estate in Mitcham have been left to live with severe damp, leaks, rodents and oth

A move by the Home Office to house asylum seekers in a "squalid" military barracks in Folkstone was flawed and unlawful, the High Court has found.

Current UK Government support for people experiencing modern slavery is leaving many victims without a safe home, facing life on the streets with no way out and at risk of further exploitation, a new research report led by homeless charity Crisis has shown. The ‘No way out and no way home&rsqu

A housing association has become the first in the UK to announce a permanent move to a hybrid working model and will offer interest free loans to its 700 colleagues to create defined workspaces in their homes.

Private sector tenants are leaving London in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research which found that landlords renting properties in the capital were the only ones in the country to report that tenant demand had fallen more than it increased. A survey of National Residential La

Housing costs are felt more by households that rent, according to new research by Vienna University of Economics and Business. The study, conducted by Professors Emanuel List and Wilfried Altzinger, investigated the financial burden that housing costs place on particular households and found that ho

Offices and other buildings within London's Square Mile left vacant due to the coronavirus pandemic could be repurposed into 1,500 new homes by 2030 under plans unveiled by the City of London Corporation.

A Los Angeles judge has ruled that the city must find housing for the entire population of Skid Row, its infamous homeless neighbourhood, within six months. LA is suffering from a severe housing and homelessness crisis. As of January 2020, there were more than 64,000 homeless people in LA county, 41

Almost 150 new homes are set to be developed on top of existing apartment blocks in London thanks to a joint venture between a housing association and a developer.