Building & Regeneration

Updated 12.04.18

- Consultation on the use of 'desktop studies' to assess the fire performance of external cladding systems

Gypsy & Traveller Sites

Updated 06.04.18

- Government to review powers to deal with unauthorised caravan sites

Social Housing

Updated 09.04.18

- More than 2,000 take part in 'Rethinking social housing' workshops

Welfare Benefits

Updated 16.04.18

- SFHA calls again for Universal Credit pause

- Universal Credit Housing Costs Element reinstated for claimants aged 18 to 21 years old

Private Sector Housing

Updated 17.04.18

- Up to a third of millennials face renting from cradle to grave

- Hundreds of thousands put up with unsafe homes for fear of eviction

- Crackdown on rogue agents to protect renters and leasehold homeowners

Homelessness & Rough Sleeping

Updated 18.04.18

- Welfare reforms are exacerbating youth homelessness new research reveals

- 70% of councils in England struggle to find housing for homeless people

- Deaths of UK homeless people more than double in five years

- Cross-government plan of action aims to reduce the number of people sleeping rough

- Shake up to council duties to tackle homelessness starts today

- Legal advice will now be available in England for anyone threatened with homelessness within 56 days

- One in five of Brighton's street homeless are in paid work

- CIH welcomes government's new rough sleeping initiative but says strategy on causes of homelessness still desperately needed

- Homeless Link responds to the government's new rough sleeping initiative

Housing for Disabled People

Updated 03.04.18

- Housing provision leaving Scottish wheelchair users behind

Housing Associations

Updated 11.04.18

- Housing associations are skewing satisfaction rates

- Peabody completes its merger with Family Mosaic

- Aldwyck celebrate successful merger with King Street Housing Society

- Clarion Housing Group and Countryside Properties enter into a joint venture to deliver up to 2,600 new homes at Eastern Quarry

- Notting Hill Housing and Genesis Housing Association have officially amalgamated

- Luminus Group has formally joined Places for People as a subsidiary

Conferences & Seminars

Updated 09.04.18

- Driving Business Transformation in Housing

- Repairs & Maintenance Conference 2018

- Communications Conference

People in Housing

Updated 09.04.18

- Mary Gibbons, who is the current chief executive at Hundred Houses Society, is CHP's new Chief Executive

- Ruth Cooke has commenced her role as Group Chief Executive of Clarion Housing Group

World Window

Updated 09.04.18

- Updates from Housing Futures: the online platform on housing strategies for cities around the globe

Media Watch

Updated 09.04.18

- Views from Altair

- CT Brief, Issue No. 34 available to download

Training

Updated 11.04.18

- Cross-border entrepreneurship training programme launched

Information Technology

Updated 11.04.18

- Aareon drives significant savings for New Charter Group's voids operation

Housing Provision

Updated 17.04.18

- Glasgow Council and partners sign agreement to deliver homes in £250 million regeneration project

- Orbit builds 2,000 homes and shared ownership sales rocket in record-breaking year

- Kier Living chosen by Homes England as partner to deliver 750 new homes in Northamptonshire

Legislation & Court Issues

Updated 16.04.18

- Updates on housing related Bills before Parliament

Grenfell Tower

Updated 17.04.18

- Leaked Grenfell dossier reveals how disastrous refurbishment turned tower into a 'tinderbox'