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Councils set to create private borrowing market
Some £19 billion of funding is set to change hands on 30 April 2012, when local authorities' new self-financing system comes into being read more
Tories support reform of council housing finance
The Conservative Party will seek to reform the Housing Revenue Account if it wins power in the general election, shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has said read more
HRA repairs 'under-resourced'
Local authorities are receiving just over two-thirds of the level of Housing Revenue Account major repairs funding that they need, according to a paper by a group of housing ... read more
Sales concern over HRA reform
Reform of the Housing Revenue Account system will be ineffective unless councils are permitted to keep their Right To Buy sales receipts, according to a local authority ... read more
Councils' Finances
What would abolition of the Housing Revenue Account mean for each council? read more
Whitehall proposes Housing Revenue Account modifications in advance of wider reforms
The Housing Revenue Account regime is to be amended to remove disincentives which deter councils from building new homes read more
HRA reform proposals signal new era of massive local authority borrowings
Self-financing settlement would result in largest single use of councils' borrowing powers for years due to re-distribution of historic HRA debt read more
HRA future now hangs in the balance
Proposals to dismantle the Housing Revenue Account have been announced by the Department for Communities & Local Government read more
New blow to HRA as Dacorum ballots for transfer
The biggest net contributor to the Housing Revenue Account system is to ballot tenants on transfer, a move which would remove around £14 million-worth of surplus from the ... read more
