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Future housing development hangs on RPs' willingness to consider radical changes
EXCLUSIVE: Funding for new homes could be found through intermediate and market rent re-lets, selling valuable vacancies, and seeking asset class disposals read more
Council New-Build
Full data on the HCA's housing grants to local authorities read more
HCA's tailored packages of support offer significant action to enhance sector's health
Real threat of loan covenant breach has been averted by HCA action, shielding RSLs' credit ratings while boosting social housing delivery read more
HCA uses grant funding for development bail-outs
The Homes & Communities Agency spent £463m bailing out housing associations' troubled developments in 2008/09, according to an exclusive analysis by Social Housing magazine read more
Convergence of public and private sectors set to fuel staff remuneration competition
Debate over landlord chief executives' salaries overlooks growing market for well-paid senior trading subsidiary staff as RPs diversify read more
No quick answers to fundamental question of what to build and how to finance it
Despite property market's apparent return to normality, longer-term prospects remain uncertain as RSLs seek new development funding models read more
HCA spends big but falters on delivery
The Homes & Communities Agency delivered just half of its allocated programme in 2008/09 read more
HCA spending spree raises questions over future grant rates and execs' moral hazard
Whether it is through lower average grant rates or greatly-reduced delivery, the sector will be paying for the HCA's spending spree for the foreseeable future read more
Drop in LCHO development margins
Shared ownership development margins have halved year-on-year, according to an exclusive analysis by Social Housing magazine read more
Accent HG pursues ambitious spending on development despite TSA viability warning
Group used £16.7 million surplus from PFI scheme sale to shore up £25 million interest payments in 2008/09 read more
NAHP allocations 2008/09
Details of the Homes & Communities Agency's new-build allocations read more
Whitehall 'must get its chequebook out' to counteract threat of long-term global deflation
Whitehall must embark on a massive, immediate expansion of public spending to counteract the threat of long-term deflation, according to a leading economist read more
