Uk & International

Thousands of people at risk of experiencing homelessness will be able to open bank accounts for the first time through a new pilot between Shelter and five major banks, which will allow the charity to support people without a fixed address into paid employment.

An East Midlands social housing provider has been fined £32,000 after multiple workers were diagnosed with vibration-related ill-health conditions such as Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation after it received more than ten reports

Armed Forces personnel and their families will benefit from the most significant transformation of UK military housing in more than 50 years, with more than 40,000 service family homes to be modernised, refurbished or rebuilt.

England's Housing Ombudsman has followed the commencement of Awaab’s Law with a new severe maladministration report that focuses on damp and mould. 

Scotland’s housing secretary Màiri McAllan has raised concerns over reports that the UK Government is preparing to reduce its affordable housing delivery targets, a move she says could have damaging consequences for housing delivery across the UK. In a letter to UK housing secretar

New laws are now in force protecting social housing tenants in all four million of England’s social rented homes from emergency hazards, damp and mould.

Social enterprise lettings agency Good Place Lettings, a unique joint venture between Crisis and Homes for Good, will launch in London today with the aim of bringing more social purpose to the private rental market in the capital. Based on Brick Lane in London’s East End, the agency has been e

A social housing complex for over-65s in Bermondsey, London, has received this year's RIBA Stirling Prize as the best example of new architecture in the UK. Replacing an abandoned care home, Appleby Blue by Witherford Watson Mann Architects radically reimagines the traditional almshouse, flipping th

A new report has been published that explores how proposed changes to housing regulations, including updates to Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES), can deliver housing equity, quality, affordability, and resilience in the private rented sector throughout England and Wales.

Modular building giant Portakabin is finalising major deals to deliver bespoke temporary homes for people facing homelessness across England, according to reports.

Almost all homes fitted with insulation under a flagship UK Government energy efficiency scheme will require repair work to correct major issues that will cause problems such as damp and mould due to poor-quality installations, weak government oversight and inadequate audit and monitoring, the publi

Military family housing in England will be explicitly held to the same legislative standards as civilian rental accommodation for the first time after new measures were agreed by the UK Government.

New research reveals that third-sector services, such as those run by housing associations, are far more effective than government work programmes at helping the long-term unemployed in deprived areas. The study, led by the University of East Anglia (UEA), investigated the impact of alternative supp

The UK Government is to press ahead with a phased introduction of Social Tenant Access to Information Requirements (STAIRS), which will introduce new rules on openness and transparency for private registered providers of social housing in England.

The UK government has confirmed it will progress work on the next generation of new towns across England, following the publication of an independent report that recommends 12 locations as potential new towns.