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Awaab's Law: Social housing tenants 'empowered to make complaints'

“Too many social housing tenants are being let down and ignored"

Manchester Evening News

New Government ads to encourage complaints about ‘rogue landlords’

Social housing tenants will be urged to complain about shoddy and dangerous housing in a major new Government advertising campaign.

The Independent UK

Baltimore has a vacant housing crisis. Could a land bank help solve it?

Bree Jones walked into a three-story rowhouse in Harlem Park, stepping on bare wooden boards and past exposed joists — the bones of a rebuilt house — and felt proud.

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Housing supply and affordability on new council agenda

The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council is meeting for the first time to advise on ways to get more people into homes.

AAP

Awaab's Law: Social housing bosses will need professional qualifications

Thousands of managers will be required to study for qualifications in wake of toddler's death in a mouldy flat in Rochdale

Manchester Evening News

Social housing managers will require qualifications in professionalism drive

Housing Secretary Michael Gove said making it mandatory to hold qualifications will improve standards across the sector.

The Independent UK

Just 25 derelict homes seized by Dublin City Council in five years despite crippling housing crisis

More than €2 million of compensation was paid to property owners over the same time period

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Could prefab be a quick fix for the housing crisis? Queensland's government thinks so

Fifty-two homes — a mix of two and three bedrooms — will be delivered across the state in the coming months, but housing advocates say it's not enough.

ABC News

Restrictive covenant at New Norfolk housing development blocks use of land for public housing

The use of a "restrictive covenant" — which excludes use of the land for public housing at a new Tasmanian real estate development — has been condemned by housing advocates.

ABC News

Protest art praised for highlighting housing dereliction in Phibsborough

Posters were stuck on the outside of an empty retail unit that advertised local derelict and vacant buildings

Dublin Live

Crackdown on poor social housing named Awaab's Law after boy who died in mouldy flat

The father of young Awaab Ishak - who died after living in a mould-infested flat - hailed plans to change the law and said public support 'stopped us feeling alone during this hard time'

Daily Mirror

Yes minister, this week it’s your turn to be Business Secretary

Is it a problem that nobody can hold down the Business Minister position for long?

Evening Standard

Qld looks to market for affordable housing proposals

The Queensland government is calling for more private and social sector proposals for affordable homes with the offer of grants from a $130 million pool.

AAP

Planning, taxes holding back affordable housing: report

The Property Council of Australia has launched a new report calling for a greater focus on housing choice and affordability and lower costs for construction.

AAP

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Woman stunned after public housing contractor leaves paint 'all over the furniture'

A woman who lives in public housing is left in a state of disbelief after a painter contracted by Homes Tasmania left paint "all over the furniture" and told her she would need to fix the job herself if she was unhappy.

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove admits 'faulty' Government guidance partly to blame for Grenfell tragedy

The Housing Secretary's comments come over five years after the fire at the residential tower block in North Kensington, west London, in June 2017 killed 72 people and triggered a public inquiry

Irish Mirror

'3D printed homes' being considered as option to tackle Ireland's housing crisis

An Irish company is at the vanguard of delivering the UK’s first major 3D printed housing development and Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien is understood to be watching the project with a keen interest.

Daily Mirror

'Awaab Ishak's death could have brought change but with UK housing, the rot goes deep'

In December 2020, a two-year-old boy died after he was left struggling to breathe when his throat became swollen and his lungs filled with poisonous mould but so many children are still living in the same conditions

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Daily Mirror

Street of Housing Shame: Children breathe in mould in Housing Minister's constituency

Several families on one street are living in homes that have turned green on the outside and have mould festering inside as they fear for their lives

The Independent UK

Brownfield sites to be revived for housing with £60m funding injection

Councils can bid for a share of the cash to regenerate neglected land and allow the building of thousands of new homes.

The Conversation

Canada's ban on foreign homebuyers is unlikely to affect housing affordability

As of Jan. 1, 2023, foreign buyers are banned from buying homes in Canada for two years under the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act. The ban was passed in June 2022, but only came into effect this month.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Government aims to help first-time buyers with equity scheme

THE Scottish Government is looking to help “as many people as possible” buy an affordable home in 2023, Housing Secretary Shona Robison has said.

Irish Mirror

People saying the same thing as Eoin Ó Broin shares very different Christmas leftover recipe

The Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson shared the culinary creation on Twitter

Irish Mirror

Darragh O’Brien taking step back in the race to replace Micheál Martin

"My absolute focus is only on the delivery of our housing agenda to make a real difference for our people"

AAP

Mirvac CEO to lead housing advisory body

Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz will take the helm of the interim National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, which will have five more members, from next year.

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