Too poor for council or housing association homes
A report from the housing campaign, Crisis, in collaboration with Herior-Watt University and the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence indicates that around a third of housing associations surveyed said pre-tenancy affordability checks determined that the applicant would not be given a tenancy due to “too low an income or insecure finances”. According to Crisis…
Social rent council homes fall below 1.5 million
Stats in Brief Council Housing Statistics 2024/25 December 2025 thelabourcampaignforcouncilhousing.org Every year councils with council housing stock send in statistical data to the Ministry of Housing. Some of them for 2024/25 have been published. The remaining ones, including Right to Buy sales will be published in the new year. You can check out the data…
Housing Matters
This is an editorial by Patrick Hannay, from Touchstone, the Journal for Architecture in Wales 2025. Reproduced with the editor’s permission. Of course it does; access to a decent home is a socio-economic fundamental. There are youthful street protests across Europe, South America, everywhere; priced out of a home by exorbitant rents and house prices…
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