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The Supported Housing Act needs to back good providers
While Emmaus UK’s research shows strong support for new supported housing standards, the government needs to think further to ensure good providers do not suffer unintended consequences
Not so nimby after all?
Ben Marshall, Research Director at Ipsos, digs into the polling around support for new homes and the public’s views on how homes should be built, and how it should …
Foundations for the Future: how can new delivery models help to mitigate the housing emergency?
Jack Pringle, Chair of the Board of the Royal Institute of British Architects, lays out the potential of new delivery models to deliver much-needed social homes.
Get on and build
Town planner Mary Elkington of Figura Planning Ltd explains a bit about the speed of housebuilding today and how the government’s proposed approaches speeding of housing delivery may be …
Thirty years of challenging the public borrowing rules
John Perry and Steve Hilditch look back at past debates about how housing financing should fit within the Government's fiscal rules.
Building  1.5m homes with a skills shortage: strategies to alleviate labour demand
City building specialist Simon Barrow lays out how the Government can reduce the demand on the UK's stretched construction workforce through Modern Methods of Construction, self-build homes, utilising private …
Housing issues loomed large in Australia’s Labor’s historic election win
Professor Hal Pawson of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, lays out the housing undercurrents of Australia's recent election and the way forward for a second Albanese term.
Labour’s opportunity to disrupt housing taxation
Red Brick Editor Alex Toal looks into how reforming how our homes are taxed could represent a political opportunity for Labour.