Plans for up to 200 homes to help former rough sleepers and victims of domestic abuse in London have been announced.

London Councils has urged the government to deliver a boost of historic proportions to local authorities’ ability to build new homes.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is set to invest £57 million to transform the Lancaster West estate, next to Grenfell Tower.

The government has been accused of extending the national housing crisis by failing to sell enough land for affordable and social housing.

The Department for Work and Pensions has developed new training on homelessness to improve support for vulnerable benefit claimants.

Andy Street has urged the government to urgently rethink part of the benefits system to protect the most vulnerable from becoming homeless.

The government has unveiled new measures to end the segregation of social housing residents in mixed-tenure developments.

£32.3 million has been awarded to support the recovery of Kensington and Chelsea College and the local community affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Communities Secretary James Brokenshire has ordered developers to do more to protect Britain’s cherished wildlife.

More than 300 children face becoming homeless during the school holidays this summer as a result of the housing crisis.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England is calling for changes to how ‘affordable’ housing is defined.

The Royal Institute of British Architects has launched a call for urgent action to tackle the severe lack of age-friendly housing.

An independent report has called on the Welsh Government to commit to a 30 year programme to reduce carbon emissions in its homes.

The government has been ‘far too slow’ in reforming the building and fire safety regime in the two years since the Grenfell Tower fire.

The Local Government Association is launching its third year of the Housing Advisers Programme.

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