Emergency action has been taken by Edinburgh City Council to suspend its current lettings policy in a bid to tackle the mounting crisis of people experiencing homelessness in the area. The decision ...

More than three-quarters of housing association homes have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of Band C or better, researchers have found. More than three-quarters of housing association ...

A national trade body has called for government action after a survey found that 35% of homes fitted with spray foam insulation had one or more defects. The findings come from research by the Property ...

A housing association has warned that its retrofit programme will be harder to deliver after it missed out on a more flexible government funding route. Together Housing has warned that its retrofit ...

All local authorities in Scotland but one are set to receive less cash for social housing this year than they did at the start of this parliament. A Shelter Scotland analysis of government data finds ...

The government is seeking views from the sector on its proposals for reforming planning committees in England. The changes will look at the delegation of planning functions, the size and composition ...

Willmott Dixon has returned to a pre-tax profit of £28.6m after the firm recovered millions of pounds from third parties for legacy cladding remediation work. After making a loss in the last financial ...

Bricklayers and carpenters have been identified as priority areas for training as part of a plan for 120,000 new opportunities aimed at young people. Announced yesterday by the Department for ...

To retrofit in accordance with the updated standard, housing associations will need to take into account a wider project environment, writes Irina Leigh, senior architect at McBains As Warm Homes: ...

Before she became an MP in 1997, Dame Siobhain McDonagh built her career in social housing. She is still fighting for housing, now as chair of the APPG for Households in Temporary Accommodation. She ...

Local government pension schemes alone do not have enough money to save the housing sector, the director of a social impact investor has said #UKhousing Gemma Bourne, managing director at Better ...

The senior leaders believe cuts and eligibility restrictions for welfare will not help people back into work, in a new open letter to the department for work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall. Emma ...