Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator open for bids
08/10/2020
The £50 million Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Demonstrator Project is now open for bids from local authorities to demonstrate innovative approaches to retrofitting social housing at scale. The SHDF Demonstrator upscales the previous Whole House Retrofit (WHR) Innovation Competition.
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PM promises to turn Generation Rent into Generation Buy
08/10/2020
In his first speech to the Conservative Party Conference as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson promised to fix the broken housing market by turning “Generation Rent” into “Generation Buy” heralding government backing for 95% mortgages.
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Regulator publishes the latest Coronavirus Operational Response Survey
23/10/2020
The Regulator of Social Housing has published the results of the sixth in its series of monthly surveys of registered providers of social housing assessing how council and housing association landlords and other registered providers are coping with the impact of Covid-19 on housing services.
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Homes at the Heart Campaign
22/10/2020
ARCH has been working in partnership with the National Housing Federation, Chartered Institute of Housing, National Federation of ALMOs and Crisis on the Homes at the Heart Campaign - a national campaign and coalition calling for a once-in-a-generation investment in social housing.
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Spending Review curtailed to one year
22/10/2020
HM Treasury has announced that the Comprehensive Spending Review, originally intended to set out the Government’s long-term spending plans, will instead be curtailed to a one-year review for 2021/22.
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Christmas eviction ban confirmed
24/09/2020
Following the Housing Secretary’s announcement of the extension of the eviction ban and the letter to local authorities on 7 September, the Housing Ministry issued a press release confirming that any Eviction Orders granted will not be enforced during any local lockdowns and that there will be a “truce” on enforcement of Eviction Orders by bailiffs over the Christmas period.
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Social Housing Decarbonisation: BEIS research
24/09/2020
The Department of Business, Enterprise & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is looking for local authorities to take part in research on energy efficiency improvements to social housing and social housing retrofit.
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