Two days after George Osborne’s budget for an ‘aspiration nation’, with its focus on home ownership, today’s homelessness statistics reveal the reality for people at the sharp end of Britain’s housing crisis. Homelessness acceptances are up 10% since 2011 to … Continue reading →

Today marks a watershed in the entitlements of homeless people in England. Measures in the Localism Act 2011 which come into force today mean that councils will no longer be legally required to offer homeless families and vulnerable people a … Continue reading →

Today, RIBA’s Future Homes Commission calls for a revolution in the scale, quality and funding of home-building to fix our broken housing market. The report’s central recommendation is for a three-fold increase in the number of new homes built every … Continue reading →

Today, Shelter is publishing information and evidence to assist local councils as they begin to compile their ‘Tenancy Strategies’ in the run up to the January 2013 deadline. These strategies, required by the Localism Act 2011, need to set out … Continue reading →

Among a number of pre-Jubilee announcements made yesterday, the Government quietly published the long-awaited draft regulations on the suitability of private rented accommodation offered to homeless people. The Localism Act 2011 will soon allow councils to offer a twelve month … Continue reading →