Inside Housing
Isabel Hardman Editorial
I am one of the reporters on the newsdesk, having joined Inside Housing as a graduate in 2009. Key patches that I cover include sustainability, housing benefit, tenure reform and the north of England.
Stories by this author.
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Broken faith
03/06/2011
Halfway through their mission to revive the housing market in depressed areas, pathfinders have had their funding axed. In the first of a two-part series on the demise of the landmark programme, Inside Housing reports from the communities where hope of a new start is fading fast
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Vela: ‘Merger will help us build more’
27/05/2011
Staff at 17,000-home Vela Group barely had time to catch their breath between the group’s creation in December 2010 and the biggest shake-up in housing policy and funding in half a century.
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Romanian benefit fraudsters jailed for total of ten years
18/05/2011
Members of a Romanian-based gang who illegally claimed £800,000 in housing benefit, tax credits, income support and child benefit payments have been jailed for a total of 10 years.
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Lib Dems demand changes to workless benefit cap
18/05/2011
Liberal Democrat MPs have demanded the government re-think its plans for a cap on the amount of benefits workless families receive.
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Labour launches fight against fixed-term tenancies
17/05/2011
Labour MPs have launched an attempt to scrap plans to introduce fixed-term tenancies for council tenants in the Localism Bill.
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Single homeless struggle in private rented sector
12/05/2011
Single homeless people who are re-housed in the private rented sector are more likely to be evicted and see a steep rise in their debt, a research has found.
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Benefit cut for underoccupiers 'will not save money'
05/04/2011
The government will spend more money than it saves by cutting housing benefit for social tenants who underoccupy their homes, Labour’s housing benefit spokesperson has warned.
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Sickness benefit crackdown begins
05/04/2011
Ministers have launched their crackdown on sickness benefits, claiming half a million claimants could be ready to return to work straight away.
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Lack of smaller homes for housing benefit changes
28/03/2011
Social landlords do not have enough smaller properties to accommodate tenants whose housing benefit is cut because they are underoccupying their homes.
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Benefit cut will aid minorities
25/03/2011
The head of Britain’s equalities watchdog has suggested housing benefit cuts could help black and ethnic minority families.
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Richer tenants to be targeted
11/03/2011
Housing associations are considering only letting affordable rent properties to tenants who can afford to pay the rent without help from housing benefit, the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned.
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IDS promises help to families hit by benefit cap
09/03/2011
Families hit by the government’s £26,000 benefits cap for workless households will receive ‘intense’ help to prevent them losing their homes, the work and pensions secretary promised today.
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Cameron scolded over Pickles' advisers
07/03/2011
David Cameron received an official reprimand from the head of the civil service following ‘unacceptable’ behaviour from special advisers to Eric Pickles.
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Review assesses effect of benefit caps
21/01/2011
The government’s £26,000 cap on the benefits a workless family can claim will provide ‘strong incentives’ to return to work, a new report suggests.
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Affordable rent could add £1bn to benefit bill
14/01/2011
The government’s plans for a new ‘affordable rent’ tenure could add over £1 billion to the housing benefit bill.
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Miliband to unveil shadow cabinet roles
08/10/2010
Former housing minister John Healey has won a place in the shadow cabinet after coming second in a ballot of Labour MPs.
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Housing Executive boss to retire
05/10/2010
The head of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Paddy McIntyre, has announced he is retiring.
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Southern merges with subsidiaries
04/10/2010
Southern Housing Group has amalgamated with two of its subsidiaries, James Butcher Housing Association and South Wight Housing Association.
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Benefit cuts are 'economic cleansing'
15/09/2010
The government has been accused of practising ‘economic cleansing’ through its programme of cuts by one of its own backbench MPs.
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Councils may share management team
09/09/2010
Two London councils have announced they are considering sharing a chief executive.
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English Housing Survey faces cuts
25/08/2010
The government is considering cutting the number of people it surveys on housing conditions by as much as 40 per cent.
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Clegg: benefit cuts are hard to justify
20/08/2010
Nick Clegg has waded into the row over housing benefit reform by suggesting proposed cuts make it difficult to justify replacing the Trident nuclear weapon.
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Labour candidates back our campaign
06/08/2010
Four of the five candidates for the leadership of the Labour Party have backed Inside Housing’s What’s the Benefit? campaign.
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Double success for What’s the Benefit? campaign
30/07/2010
MPs have backed one of the key demands of Inside Housing’s What’s the Benefit? campaign by agreeing to hold an inquiry into controversial housing benefit reforms.
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Brent housing head joins benefit cut critics
27/07/2010
A director of housing at a London council has broken ranks to criticise planned changes to housing benefit.
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Hundreds give backing to housing benefit campaign
16/07/2010
More than 300 people backed Inside Housing’s What’s the Benefit? campaign within three working days.
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Landlord appoints new head after bullying claims
26/05/2010
A Lincolnshire housing association whose chief executive left amid allegations of bullying has appointed a replacement.