Powys County Council is one of five authorities across the country to confirm interest in an asylum seeker housing plan.

The row centres on a £100 million Home Office-funded pilot, which enables councils to acquire and refurbish around 900 ...

Over the summer we saw several claims circulating about social and council housing, and in particular housing waiting lists. Social and council housing are often used interchangeably, but it’s worth ...

We are in the depths of the worst housing crisis since the Second World War, but there is a solution which has worked before and will work again – building council housing. Today, to push the issue ...

Angela Rayner is is expected to set up a 'council housing revolution' as she is handed almost £1biillion in next week's budget. The deputy prime minister is planning to double council house building ...

The basis for rent increases is set by the Welsh Government policy for social housing rents and in order to comply with the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Local authorities have urged the UK government to “wake the sleeping giant of housebuilding” by allowing ...

Its figures are absent from our story this year – the council refused to respond to our FOI request. Birmingham stated that it intends to release data on its building programme this month, but “it ...

Four years ago, the disrepair at Croydon’s Regina Road Estate shocked ITV viewers and led to regulatory intervention. The council has now improved services. Katharine Swindells reports #UKhousing In ...

Thousands of town residents face waits of up to 12 years for a new council home in what one councillor described as a "dire" situation. A recent report by the company that manages Stockport Council's ...