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The Housing Ombudsman has released its latest ‘learning from severe maladministration’ report, focusing on inspections and timeliness within damp and mould complaints against English housing associations. 

New figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government yesterday have shown that the number of households facing homelessness in England has exceeded (320,000) between 2023-2024, the highest on record.

England's Housing Ombudsman has released its latest Insight report focusing on shared ownership, setting out nine tests for how the Ombudsman may assess shared ownership complaints in future as it develops its approach.

All UK Armed Forces Veterans will be exempt from rules which require a connection to a local area before accessing social housing, the UK Government has revealed.

The UK Government hopes to introduce a ban on evicting tenants in England without a reason by next summer after its Renters’ Rights Bill was introduced to Parliament yesterday.

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has launched a New Homes Accelerator which aims to accelerate hundreds of thousands of new homes stuck in the planning system or partially built throughout England.

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has said she will meet with building safety regulators to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding from at-risk buildings across England. The housing secretary made the comments during a visit to Dagenham, east London, the day after a dramatic fire tore t

An independent review into repairs and decants ordered by the Housing Ombudsman has provided 31 recommendations for Peabody to improve services. The review, called a wider order, was made using new powers that require landlords to take steps to prevent future service failure by improving its policy

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly planning to increase social rents by more than inflation for the next 10 years to turbocharge efforts to build social homes.

Britain’s biggest pension fund has bought more than 3,000 shared ownership homes from American investment group Blackstone for £405 million.

Hundreds of homes designed to be part of an athletes’ village for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games will be sold by the council at a loss of about £320 million. Birmingham City Council agreed last week to sell 755 of the apartments, which have been vacant for months, to a private bidder.

A social landlord in England left a child’s bedroom window boarded up for four years while another landlord continually put off repairs for years due to incoming major works, which left a vulnerable child in a cold home, the Housing Ombudsman has revealed.

The number of households facing homelessness in England is the highest since records began, according to new UK Government figures.

Barratt’s £2.5 billion deal to purchase rival Redrow Homes has raised competition concerns in a local area around an existing Barratt development, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found.

Deputy prime minister and secretary of state for housing Angela Rayner has announced the UK Government’s first steps to reform planning in England. The ambitions include building 370,000 new homes each year, reforming council housing targets, and enforcing new provisions to open up the me