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'Find a place you can afford' outside London, council tells homeless households facing sky-high rents

Brent council is placing homeless families in High Wycombe, Milton, Keynes, Luton, Birmingham and even further afield amid ‘tsunami of demand’ for housing

Evening Standard

Canada Offers Deals On 56 Government-Owned Properties To Create Affordable Housing

Former military bases, postal facilities and federal office buildings are among the sites listed in the new Canada Public Land Bank database.

International Business Times

Social homes only solution to housing crisis: report

Testimonies from almost 1500 Australians say the lack of affordable housing is driving them into poverty and forcing them to stay with abusive partners.

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Tories demand Labour Government put Sadiq Khan in 'special measures' over affordable housing

Slow progress on the mayor’s affordable homes programme has been blamed by his team on “the disastrous inheritance from the last Government”

Evening Standard

Property giant warns ministers of the real cost of achieving housing targets

Exclusive: Boss of Berkeley Group calls for more money to be invested in housebuilding – and less diverted to potholes – as he reveals he is buying land for the first time in two and a half years

The Independent UK

Housing targets cut for Cabinet members’ constituencies despite push for 370,000 new homes

Angela Rayner unveiled a major overhaul of the planning system last week, which will see all councils in England given new, mandatory housing targets

The Independent UK

Doubt cast over plan to convert CBD offices into homes

The cost of retrofitting under-used Melbourne CBD offices into residential apartments is proving an obstacle to a key housing policy getting off the ground.

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Hunter sites to lead way in NSW modular home social housing trial

Five homes will be built across four suburbs.

Newcastle Herald

Size matters: why NZ’s new housing rules risk cheap builds and shoebox apartments

There is a lot of good in Housing Minister Chris Bishop’s new housing policy – especially in relation to mixed-use developments and intensification along transit corridors. But he has also proposed the abolition of minimum floor area and balcony requirements.

The Conversation

Angela Rayner Appointed Deputy Prime Minister By Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer appoints Angela Rayner as Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities to address key issues and dr...

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Sadiq Khan seeks new powers and billions for affordable housing from new Labour Government

The mayor is looking forward to ‘constant obstacles not being put in my way’

Evening Standard

Remote housing fix needed to 'get real' on closing gap

Homes in Queensland's remote communities are chronically overcrowded, and waiting lists for social housing blowing out, sparking calls for federal funding.

AAP

Sites for hundreds of homes teased out after land audit

The NSW government has identified 44 sites for new housing, revealing the first four, with billions to fund the supply of more dwellings amid a crisis.

AAP

'Not open to negotiation': New homes face delays

Australia's housing minister has not said whether she believes having a home should be a human right, as a political gridlock delays building new homes.

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Evening Standard

Rough sleeping in London hits new record high, with almost 12,000 street homeless in last year

The total number of rough sleepers in the capital is up 19 per cent on the previous year

AAP

Government lays foundation for social housing upswing

Billions of dollars in funding have been allocated to states and territories in Labor's plan to address shortfalls in social housing and homelessness services.

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'I am sorry': Indigenous homelessness heat on minister

Response by government to tackle Indigenous homelessness and housing disadvantage has been inadequate, a housing minister says.

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Independent MPs push to make housing a human right

Laws introduced to federal parliament would force governments to meet targets to build new homes and improve affordability, under an independent proposal.

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Housing land release plan a challenge but not 'impossible': Berry

Labor frustration at Greens' politicking on housing grows.

Evening Standard

Michael Gove says Covid to blame for Tories' failure to end rough sleeping by 2024

The outgoing Housing Secretary said the Conservatives will now aim to eliminate rough sleeping in the next Parliament

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Government housing crisis plan 'fatally undermined' by cuts, experts warn

A COALITION of leading housing and anti-poverty organisations have accused the Scottish Government of “proceeding with business as usual” amid a…

The Conversation

No-cause evictions have the potential to hurt renters – with little gain for good landlords

Housing security for New Zealand’s 1.7 million renters could be threatened if the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill becomes law.

AAP

Record funds for social homes to fix NSW pressure point

The NSW government plans to funds thousands of new social homes - spending more than any predecessor - while critics say another tweak will make matters worse.

Evening Standard

Next PM should focus on ‘housing, housing, housing’

Fiona Fletcher-Smith, the leader of the G15 group for social builders, urges housing-centric update to Tony Blair’s famous mantra about education

The Canberra Times

Future public housing in city unit block rejected by Housing ACT

The site was earmarked for dwellings and the offer then knocked back.

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