The government has announced it will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring next year, meaning rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence.

The government has announced that everyone over the State Pension age in England and Wales with an income of, or below, £35,000 a year will b

A new AI tool which can scan hundreds of files in seconds is being rolled out to speed up planning permissions.

Military housing

The government has announced more than £1.5 billion extra support for accommodation for UK Armed Forces, which will be part of the upcoming Strategic Defence Review (SDR), and bring military accommodation funding up to £7 billion this Parliament.

Building houses

The Welsh government have made progress on providing more social homes for Swansea, having agreed the sale of plots of land.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published three regulatory judgements on the London Borough of Brent.

Housing development

Smaller and medium-sized housebuilders will benefit from loosening government regulations, to speed up development on smaller sites across the UK.

Housebuilding

The government has announced major changes that housebuilders must follow, which include developers having to declare delivery timeframes before they receive planning permission, ensuring that sites aren’t left half-finished for years.

Brick house model

According to provisional figures, Homes England has beaten its annual targets for the number of houses started, completed, and potential homes unlocked in 2024-25, which is a key part of the government’s mission to deliver 1.5 million homes

Rows of houses

A new briefing by Centre for Cities sets out five anti-supply measures that the think tank urges the government to adopt, should it wish to reach its target of building 1.5 million new homes.

Person using smartphone

The Welsh government has expanded its Minimum Digital Living Standard, which encourages the minimum level of digital inclusion for people in social housing, helping them to become more confident with technology.

The Scottish Government has highlighted a range of measures it has taken to increase investment in housebuilding and help reduce the number of hous

The Welsh Government has made available £24 million in loan funding to unlock land for housing development, and deliver more than 600 new hom

The Scottish Government has announced a new partnership programme to help prevent people from becoming homeless.

London

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is to announce that City Hall is considering releasing part of London’s green belt to enable development.

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