Lunchtime news April 2
New research for the DCLG into loans for vulnerable home owners concludes there is room for expansion if more choices are developed. Councils will be allowed to build and deliver…
Tag: anti-social behaviour
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ROOF lunchtime news 28 June 2026
Hazel Blears will be the new secretary of state for Communities and Local Government. The former minister of state at the Home Office, who came sixth in the contest for…
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Breakdown Britain
HE WAS 24 YEARS OLD and he hadn’t even seen Cathy Come Home. In 1966 Des Wilson was working on a campaign called Shelter from a dingy London office. In…
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Lunchtime news June 8
Action to stop anti-social private tenants blighting housing developments will be a top priority for Communities England, reports Inside Housing. Most of today’s papers, including the Financial Times, speculate that…
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An asbo revival
Home secretary Alan Johnson has pledged to revive the use of antisocial behaviour orders (asbos) in the most extreme cases of intimidation and harassment. In a package of measures designed…
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Breakfast boost
NEW POWERS for tenant management organisations to take out anti-social behaviour orders and new funding [customary caveats about whether it really is] for arm’s length management organisations were served up…
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Bad behaviour blights lives of tenants
More than 40 per cent of social tenants or their families have been hit by antisocial behaviour during the past two years, according to a YouGov poll. Council and housing…
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Student housing consultation launched
A consultation into the Town and Country Planning Act concerning homes in multiple occupancy (HMOs) was launched yesterday. The department for Communities and Local Government wants to identify ways of…
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Lunchtime news Tuesday 16 September 2026
Pensioners are the hardest hit by the rising costs of bills. Those living on state benefits saw their living and housing expenses increase by 5.1 per cent in the year…
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New crime Bill could make more homeless
A parliamentary joint select committee on human rights has warned that an increasing number of vulnerable people could become homeless under the new Policing and Crime Bill. The Bill will…