Housing

‘Shady’ developers blamed for affordable housing shortage

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has blamed developers playing the planning system as many local authorities continue to fall ‘woefully short’ of affordable home targets.

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Colchester looks to launch housing company

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Councils build homes again as the crisis deepens

Communities Economic Development Housing

Leadership is key to the future of social housing

Built Environment Housing

Making eco homes affordable

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An energy efficiency project delivering more than warmer homes

Housing

Only a ‘whole stock’ approach can fix housing

Finance Housing

Can a London Bond help tackle the capital’s housing crisis?

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The story of an empty home

The story of John P. Houghton’s empty childhood home ended happily – after many years. It shouldn’t take so long to get the UK’s empty homes occupied again, he says.

In February 2011, I blogged for New Start about the sorry state of my childhood home in Kirkby, Merseyside. I had lived in the house from the age of 7 to 18, between 1985 and 1996, when my family moved out and I left for university.