Uk & International

People from EU countries living in Britain are nearly three times more likely to experience rough sleeping than the general adult population and are twice as likely to experience homelessness overall because they struggle to access support, new research from homelessness charity Crisis has revealed.

The UK Government’s new Heat and Building Strategy has come under fire, being described by one industry leader as “insufficient for the scale of the challenge we face". The comments, from Mike Foster, CEO of the Energy and Utilities Alliance, come in the wake of the government announcing

G15 housing associations Peabody and Catalyst have confirmed their intention to join together to form a £900 million-turnover organisation from April next year. Both boards carefully considered feedback from residents and have now agreed that Catalyst will join the Peabody Group as a subsidiar

The UK Government's housing carousel continued to turn yesterday as Michael Gove became the latest secretary of state for housing, community and local government at Westminster. The former chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster will be tasked with deciding where and how new housing should be

More than 135,000 of the households in England who experienced or were at risk of homelessness during much of the pandemic also had other support needs, new UK Government statistics have revealed. The statistics show that from April 2020 – March 202

Over 9,000 people with the most serious support needs, such as trauma, physical and mental health problems and drug and alcohol dependencies, are at risk of being trapped in a cycle of homelessness because there aren’t enough Housing First programmes available in England to support them into a

The UK Government has today allocated funding worth £8.6 billion for its Affordable Homes Programme which will deliver around 119,000 homes, including 57,000 for ownership, 29,600 for social rent and 6,250 affordable rural homes.

Rough sleepers and other vulnerable people in Cornwall are to be housed in “sheds” due to a housing shortage fuelled by the growing number of second homes and holiday lets in the area. Cornwall residents have voiced concerns that the move risks the area being blighted by “homegrown

Councils and housing associations across London are to be given support to buy former council homes from the private sector that can be used to resettle families arriving from Afghanistan The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is expanding his new Right to Buy-back fund to help councils buy homes

Cross-party MPs and national homelessness charity Crisis are today urging the UK Government to scrap the law that criminalises rough sleeping, six months after housing secretary Robert Jenrick said it should be “consigned to history”.  Already repe

Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, has promised to block overseas property investors if he is re-elected as the country's leader. He has vowed to impose a two-year ban on foreign home buyers if he is re-elected, in a bid to address the affordability of homes in Canada.

The UK Government is to bring in tighter guidance for planning authorities in England as part of a package of actions to better protect and prepare communities for flooding.

More than 140 councils across England have been awarded a share of over £13 million to help find longer-term accommodation for prison leavers. The announcement comes a week after a UK Government-backed scheme was launched to provide temporary, basic accommodation to prison leavers as part

New legislation to be introduced in England and Wales will give homeowners twice as long to claim compensation for dangerous cladding or poor workmanship in light of the Grenfell tragedy. The Building Safety Bill, to be published today, will create a clear pathway for how residential buildings shoul

Clarion Housing Group has apologised to its tenants after an ITV investigation revealed squalid conditions inside hundreds of properties on a housing estate in south London.  Families living on the Eastfields Estate in Mitcham have been left to live with severe damp, leaks, rodents and oth