Action on exempt housing
Improvements are needed to ensure vulnerable residents get the support they expect and need.
housing
Accessible homes
Councils share the collective national ambition to tackle the country’s housing shortage, and our goals can only be achieved by strong national and local leadership working together.
18,000 affordable homes ‘lost’ to permitted development
More than 18,000 affordable houses have been lost as a result of office-to-residential conversions under permitted development.
Health and safety concerns for private renters
Councils increasingly do not have the capacity and capability to provide ‘appropriate and consistent protection for private renters’, according to a new report from the Public Accounts Committee.
‘A better deal for renters’
Private sector renters and social housing tenants will enjoy additional protections as a result of new legislation proposed in the Queen’s Speech.
Delivering on a collective vision
The LGA’s inaugural Urban Summit discussed the future of our cities.
Supported housing changes to help vulnerable residents
A package of measures designed to put an end to dishonest landlords exploiting some of the most vulnerable people in society has been announced by the Government.
Developers ‘must pay’ cladding bills
Developers have been warned by the Government that they must pay to fix the cladding crisis.
Private tenants face rise in homelessness
More than 4,000 households living in the private sector were threatened with homelessness between July and September last year – an increase of almost 60 per cent from the same quarter the previous year.
Tax loophole on second homes closed
Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to pay, under tough new measures announced by the Government