The policy environment

A new Chair has been elected to the HCLG Select Committee 1

Housing associations "should do more to tackle misinformation about social housing allocations" 1

Reform UK plans to abolish affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites outside of five major cities 1

The Conservatives are proposing significant cuts in welfare spending to fund an increase in defence expenditure 1

The Liberal Democrats are calling for a legal target of 150,000 new social homes per year 1

The Senedd has published a research paper on role of migration and other factors on the housing crisis 1

The sector needs certainty on costs to support long-term planning 1

Housing and health “should be in a single integrated ministry” 1

The government “should speed up action to improve conditions in the private rented sector” 1

The cost of housing in London has become a key political and electoral issue 1

Capping private sector rent increases “is essential to tackling the cost-of-living crisis” 1

The welfare savings from capping private sector rents “could support more social housing” 1

The government continues to rule out introducing rent controls in the private sector 1

Campaigners would like all affordable housing to be for social rent and to be delivered by councils 2

Private developers are calling for a cut in stamp duty 1

There are calls for a new version of the Help to Buy to be introduced 1

The Conservatives have pledged to ban foreign nationals from social housing 2

Reform UK would scrap social value requirements in the award of public contracts 1

Councils in England could face a £7billion funding black hole within three years 1

The number of homes being turned into holiday lets is putting pressure on housing supply in Wales 1

There is potential to use vacant historic buildings to increase housing supply 1