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Comment: ‘Michael Gove’s housing plans mustn’t sacrifice quality to quantity’

Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s new housing plan has much to shout about — but there’s a big question still to be answered.

Evening Standard

Michael Gove tells Sadiq Khan: I’ll intervene if City Hall plan fails to deliver enough homes

The Housing Secretary’s intervention sparked an angry response from City Hall

Evening Standard

Soundbites won’t solve London’s housing shortage

City comment: Michael Gove’s comments are all well and good, but the signs on the ground paint a much gloomier picture

Evening Standard

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What are Government’s latest housing proposals and will they help with crisis?

The Government said it is still committed to building 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s.

The Independent UK

Sunak confirms bulk of Britain’s new homes will not ‘concrete over the countryside’ as Gove announces reforms

Rishi Sunak confirmed that government is on course to meet its target of building one million homes between 2019 and 2024

The Independent UK

Gove to announce plans to make home extensions and loft conversions easier

The Housing Secretary also plans to slash red tape to make it simpler to convert shop space into living space.

The Independent UK

North Lawndale housing development facing delays over city rules

City Hall promised to build 250 single-family homes, but higher costs and permit delays are holding back progress.

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T.N. CM Stalin inaugurates 3,010 TNUHDB housing tenements across State

Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin inaugurated 3,010 housing units in Chennai & 5 other districts at a total cost of ₹358.15 crore. He also handed over house allocation orders & scholarships to beneficiaries & incentives to 90 sportspersons.

The Hindu

€150m fund ‘to end dereliction' as Government vows to hit its housing targets

Minister Darragh O’Brien was unable to say how many social homes were completed in the first quarter of 2023

Dublin Live

'We will hit housing targets' claims Minister but he's unable to say how many social houses built

Mr O’Brien said: “The number one priority is homelessness.

Irish Mirror

Public housing has not kept up with population growth: report

Independent budget assessment found forecasts to be reasonable.

The Canberra Times

Auckland Councillors livid at surprise Kāinga Ora directive

Councillors have hit back at a surprise directive by central Government for Kāinga Ora to look at building 66,000 homes along Auckland’s forthcoming light rail corridor.

Newsroom.co.nz

Hotel bill for homeless jumps as NSW runs out of room

A lack of affordable housing is forcing more people into hotel rooms, with government spending on temporary accommodation rising 22 per cent in one year.

AAP

Awaab's death was a 'hammer blow to our conscience', housing secretary says - now he has a powerful legacy that will save lives

'It shouldn't have taken Awaab's death to focus attention, but out of that tragedy has come a renewed move to deal with this'

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Rishi Sunak told he's 'given up' as PM as he struggles to explain Tory housing plans

In a fraught PMQs, Keir Starmer claimed the PM's body language and answers showed he had 'given up' and asked how many will lose their homes as interest rates soar before the Government helps them

The Guardian - AU

Australian government seeks urgent legal advice on double dissolution over housing bill standoff

Labor used question time to pile pressure on the Greens, accusing them of caring more about retweets than rentals

The New Daily

‘Juvenile’: PM seeks advice as housing policy stalls

Anthony Albanese says the government is seeking advice on the triggers for a double dissolution after the Greens delayed a key housing bill.

The New Daily

All options on table as housing fund held up in Senate

Labor could shelve a key election promise - legislating a $10 billion housing fund - after the Greens successfully had it delayed until October.

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'Juvenile': PM seeks advice as housing policy stalls

The prime minister says the government is seeking advice on the triggers required for a double dissolution after the Greens delayed a key housing bill.

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Government's housing fund legislation delayed by Greens-Coalition alliance

The Greens and the Coalition have teamed up again to present a vote being taken on the government’s $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.

AAP

Turfing brick cottages for units made easier in NSW

Bypassing council approval for new housing developments will be opened to more builders in NSW as the state tries to address a chronic housing shortage.

The Canberra Times

Advocates call for Greens to pass housing fund

The call follows a $2 billion investment in housing announced at the weekend.

Evening Standard

Two-thirds of London boroughs home to tower with ‘Grenfell cladding’

Labour’s shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook said it “beggars’ belief” that so many still have deadly Grenfell-style ACM cladding

The New Daily

Greens knock back Labor’s proposed housing fund tweaks

The government is proposing key changes to its $10 billion housing fund but the Greens say Labor is still not moving on its two key demands.

The New Daily

Qld budget to fund 500 social homes by mid-2025

Queensland's budget will include over $320 million for social homes with the government saying it's "pulling every lever" to address the housing shortage.

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