Labour offers DUP funding sweetener

Poor performing housing associations pushed to merge

Northern Irish housing associations will be encourage to merge to improve their performance, the country’s new housing minister has said.

Rhetoric and reality

Lording it up

The flag bearer for Cornwall

The campaign for a devolved Cornwall appears to be gaining pace. Lydia Stockdale looks at the housing problems driving it forward.

Defeat for government on Welfare Reform Bill

The government has tonight lost another key vote on the Welfare Reform Bill

Colour charts

As voters across England, Scotland and Wales prepare to go to the polls, we assess the key battlegrounds for housing

What’s in a name?

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

Get your Act together

With a host of legal acts coming into effect this year and next, Caroline Thorpe helps you to learn your lines so you can take to the housing stage with confidence

The legal aid lifeline

Cuts to legal aid and new spending restrictions mean tens of thousands of tenants will no longer be eligible for free housing advice. Jess McCabe visits a law centre to investigate the likely impact of the changes

Uncertain times for tenants

Co-operatives need clarification over tenure regime for members, says Brynmor Adams, barrister at Five Paper