Late last week the government announced no council tax revaluations in this parliament . Of course, council's will still be free to chan...

Research for the BBC has identified the places most vulnerable to spending cuts . I am not sure it throws up that many sur...

Not some new, soon to be broke holiday company, but the government's National Insurance Contributions holiday scheme which started tod...

CLG released the latest figures for housing starts were released a few days ago. There were 28,590 starts (seasonally adjusted). According...

I was thinking a little more on the new home bonus and reflecting, in particular on the following: "Mr Shapps urged councils to open ...

The coalition has announced plans to provide LAs with financial incentives to agree to new housebuilding. In the area of housing, I am no f...

Social housing is associated with three "mobility" problems relating to tenure (people are unlikely to move out to renting or owni...