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Lowest funded councils join forces to call for ‘levelling up’ funding fix
Some of the lowest paid local authorities in England are calling on the government to provide a £300m temporary injection to their finances.
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Government’s new £2m rogue landlord crackdown plan sounds good – but is it enough?
Housing campaigners and landlord associations alike fear the move will lead to a "postcode lottery" for ailing private renters.
#PMQs: While the Tories laugh, Corbyn’s focus on bus services could be a big vote winner
The Labour leader played a very clever hand in PMQs today, by honing in on an issue Tory MPs know little about.
Of course Right to Buy is doomed – affordable homes were never the point of it
A report showing how the scheme will fail in the next five years did not come as a surprise. The end of council housing was the plan all along.
Here’s everything wrong with May’s big speech on the housing crisis
From growing homelessness and social housing waiting lists to dropping house building, the Tories have utterly failed to address the housing crisis.
May blames “nimby councils” for housing crisis, ignoring 30 years of Tory attacks on social housing
The PM thinks she can get away with blaming local authorities for the lack of house building in the UK, totally ignoring the facts.