A £2.3 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund has been launched by Sajid Javid to help unlock 100,000 new homes in areas of high demand.
Speaking at the LGA Conference, the Communities Secretary said that the investment will help to fund vital physical infrastructure projects like the building of roads, bridges, energy networks and other utilities, the absence of which continues to hold housebuilding back.

A new report is encouraging the government to devolve public spending and tax raising powers to rural areas.

The LGA has warned that local government will have lost 75p out of every £1 of core central government funding that it had to spend in 2015.

The experimental tram-train linking Sheffield and Rotherham is expected to be delivered three years late and five times over budget.

A council leader has urged for local authorities to have the power to impose tariffs on developers to provide cash for more affordable housing.

New plans being considered by energy regulator Ofgem include a price cap on energy bills for more households on low incomes.
With the cost of gas and electricity for those currently on pre-payment meters already saving approximately four million people £80 a year, the extension could raise this number by another two million.
Research from Ofgem and the findings of the Competition and Markets Authority investigation point to vulnerable consumers in particular getting a poor deal.

The skills gap is costing UK businesses more than £2 billion a year in higher salaries, recruitment costs and temporary staffing.

The LGA has warned that 14 per cent of private renters are spending more than half of their total income on rent.

The CPRE has warned that the increase in houses planned for the Green Belt remain unaffordable to those who need them.

Children facing being taken into care are 70 per cent more likely to end up in care proceedings if they live in north of England.