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With HACT’s Age-Friendly Social Housing Programme coming to an end, the organisation has looked back at its collaborative two-year initiative designed to build inclusive communities for older residents across the UK. Since 2022, the Age Friendly programme engaged 35 housing associations within

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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