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Teaching youngsters that money matters

19 March 2012 | No comments

Youngsters at a Wear Valley School will have lessons on how to manage their money when they grow up.

Safety net of savings

14 March 2012 | No comments

First time buyers – advice about low cost home ownership schemes

29 February 2012 | No comments

Grant Shapps: Setting the benchmark for transparency in social housing

14 February 2012 | No comments

Housing Minister Grant Shapps today praised the latest social landlord to open its books and become more transparent to tenants.

£68 million boost for housing in Brighton & Hove

30 January 2012 | No comments

Budget proposals for improving the quality and increasing the supply of council housing in the city will be considered by councillors and tenant representatives of the Housing Management Consultative Committee on 6 February.

Innovation Chain North West names firms in new framework

26 January 2012 | No comments

Innovation Chain North West (ICNW), a partnership of four award-winning housing associations with a commitment to sustainable development and communities,

Wynyard Business Park to host Affordable Homes Exhibition

23 January 2012 | No comments

A special event is being held at Wynyard Business Park next month for people wanting to get on the housing ladder.

£77 million Wiltshire housing PFI scheme under way

23 January 2012 | No comments

A £77 million Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract which will see around 350 affordable rented homes built in west Wiltshire has been signed following government approval.

A response to the House of Lords defeat for the government’s proposed bedroom tax

19 January 2012 | No comments

The defeat in the House of Lords of the proposal to introduce a ‘bedroom tax’ – or withdrawal of housing benefit for tenants under-occupying their homes – must surely send a clear message to the Government: you have simply got this wrong!

Council invests millions in new housing

19 December 2011 | No comments

Significant investment in new housing at sites across Clackmannanshire was agreed at last week’s Council meeting. Among the projects discussed were plans to build 25 new houses in Sauchie.

Crumbling market causes housing crisis in the East Midlands

7 December 2011 | No comments

Rural communities in the East Midlands are sitting on a time bomb as house building slows to its lowest rate since the 1920s.

Grant Shapps: £430m cash bonus for communities who have built homes

1 December 2011 | No comments

Housing Minister Grant Shapps today announced the latest instalment of powerful cash bonuses for communities who have built new homes.

Grant Shapps and local MPs meet to discuss Shropshire housing issues

30 November 2011 | No comments

Housing minister Grant Shapps has met with two Shropshire MPs and a delegation of housing officials in order to discuss the shortfall of homes in the county.

Grant Shapps hails progress towards decent social homes

30 November 2011 | No comments

Housing Minister Grant Shapps today hailed the rapid and impressive progress that has been made to improve the nation’s social housing stock, with the numbers of homes considered ‘non decent’ down by more than a quarter.