Councils to shed 140,000 jobs

Councils seek funding freedoms to build homes

Council leaders are calling on the chancellor to ease restrictions on local authority borrowing to enable them to build more homes.

Landlords look to Osborne to boost investment

Housing associations and councils have called on chancellor George Osborne to help them access more private sector investment as part of next week’s Budget.

Leap of faith

Housing staff strike as 700,000 face job loss

Social landlords across the UK battled to keep crucial services open during the national public sector strike over pension changes.

Redundancies cost Gentoo £2 million

Gentoo Group spent nearly £2 million on redundancy payouts last year as the economic slowdown and grant funding cuts hit its construction arm.

What’s in a name?

The housing strategy for England has finally arrived, but what does it mean for the sector?

Special agents

Is your organisation ready for the introduction of new rights for agency workers, asks Siobhan Fitzgerald, lawyer at TLT

Calling in the movers

The ‘bedroom tax’ is meant to encourage tenants to downsize if they are under-occupying their homes. But, especially in the north of England, social landlords say there are simply not enough smaller houses and flats to move tenants into.

Tooled up for success

Social landlords could save thousands of pounds and boost tenant satisfaction by improving their repairs services. Here, Debbie Larner explains how a new campaign aims to help them do just that

Hands-on approach

A new breed of customer-focused housing officers is giving tenants a lot more satisfaction. Emily Rogers meets one of them