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Greater Manchester's next mayor must solve its housing emergency
Greater Manchester faces a housing emergency. Tackling skyrocketing rents and a severe lack of social housing, the next mayor must prioritise safe, affordable and secure…
Scrapping Section 21 will make the private rented sector better
Two years ago today on 15 April 2019, the then-Secretary of State for Housing, James Brokenshire, announced that the government would abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions.…
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No-one likes planners. Developers think of them as meddling bureaucrats at best, and Stalinist naysayers at worst. Some people resent
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The red tape challenge
Planners may not be popular right now, but they at least have some defenders, if only their own trade associations.
2012: a game changer of a year
For many in the housing world, 2012 represents the first year of a totally rewritten policy environment. In 2011, the