Tens of thousands of people will be protected from homelessness as a result of a £316 million government funding boost.

New homes and buildings will have to produce significantly less CO2 under new rules to help the country move towards net zero.

UKGBC has published a framework to support cities and local authorities to measure the impacts and wider benefits of building retrofit.

New research published by Shelter shows that more than 274,000 people are homeless in England right now, including 126,000 children.

The government should rapidly implement a new strategic planning model to closer align housebuilding and infrastructure in county areas.

Older people should be helped to spend their later years in new urban retirement housing in town and city centres rather than the coast or the countryside.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has committed £51 million to help keep Londoners warm and tackle fuel poverty.

Sadiq Khan has launched his annual Winter Rough Sleeping Fundraising Campaign, urging the government to ‘wake up’ to the dangers facing the vulnerable in the capital.

Derelict sites across the country will be transformed into new homes under a flagship government scheme to regenerate brownfield land.

The Welsh Government is announcing a new £30 million funding pot over five years for local authorities to help end homelessness.

MPs support stronger government policy to scale up the installation of renewable heating technologies for new and existing homes.

Fourteen ‘brownfield’ sites have been identified for nearly 3,000 new homes in the Liverpool City Region.

People living in social housing will be safer in their homes under new rules that will mean smoke alarms must be fitted in all rented accommodation.

More than 5,000 new homes in flood-risk areas of England have been granted planning permission so far this year.

Shelter has warned that a failure to include social housing in the government’s upcoming ‘levelling up’ plan may escalate the housing emergency.

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