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“The overall quality and condition of homes falls short of our aspirations."
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We’re being forced out of our homes over Raac concrete nightmare: People who bought their homes on an Aberdeen council housing estate after the properties were ...
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We’re being forced out of our homes over Raac concrete nightmare
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Olivia Colman backs social housing campaign as UK human rights ‘under threat’: Amnesty has launched a short film based on the real-life experiences of a young ...
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Olivia Colman backs social housing campaign as UK human rights ‘under ...
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Council homes illegally rented on apps like Airbnb costing taxpayers extra £6.2bn
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Council homes illegally rented on apps like Airbnb costing taxpayers extra ...
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Kirklees Council put tenants at risk of 'serious detriment' amid safety breaches 🏚tinyurl.com/tenantsatrisk
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Gentoo to increase rents on its social housing homes in Sunderland by 7.7%: Tenants living in Gentoo properties will see their rents rise by 7 ...
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Gentoo to increase rents on its social housing homes in Sunderland by 7.7%
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Sheffield council house tenants face rent hike from Apriltinyurl.com/3cc2x9w7
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Inside disgusting homes STILL riddled with mould after death of toddler: Awaab Ishak died in 2020 after he was exposed to damp and mould
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Inside disgusting homes STILL riddled with mould after death of toddler
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Birmingham tenants to face maximum hike in rents in further hit on finances: Rents are going up again in Birmingham council properties and homeless centres
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Birmingham tenants to face maximum hike in rents in further hit on ...
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Life will get better for council tenants despite £300m cuts : Not all services are doomed in huge £300m cuts to balance council books, says Government ...
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Life will get better for council tenants despite £300m cuts
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Tenants failed over mould and repairs as A2Dominion downgraded: A2Dominion referred itself to the regulator and is making improvements. It hit the headlines in ...
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Tenants failed over mould and repairs as A2Dominion downgraded
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Safety failings in Dudley council homes will be sorted soon: DUDLEY'S leader has insisted thousands of health and safety failings in council properties will be ...
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Safety failings in Dudley council homes will be sorted soon
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Chair of Keighley homes group is stepping down: A SENIOR figure with a Keighley homes group has stepped down.
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Chair of Keighley homes group is stepping down
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Southwark housing department could face Ofsted-style inspection: Southwark’s “mired in scandal” housing department could face an Ofsted-style inspection under ...
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Southwark housing department could face Ofsted-style inspection
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Babergh and Mid Suffolk plans £1.6m council house boost: An extra £1.6million is set to be spent on repairs and improvements to council houses in Babergh and Mid ...
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Babergh and Mid Suffolk plans £1.6m council house boost
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A troubled housing association has been reported to regulator over controversial rule changes Full story: bit.ly/3SqZUDs
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Every high rise housing block in Coventry to undergo crumbling concrete checks: Citizen has pledged that action will be taken if any is found
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Every high rise housing block in Coventry to undergo crumbling concrete ...
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Cornwall housing crisis: Myths busted and key questions answered: The CEO of Cornwall's Coastline Housing - one of the biggest housing associations in the ...
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Cornwall housing crisis: Myths busted and key questions answered
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Checks on whether city council housing contains dangerous concrete : The council says no issues have currently been identified.
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Checks on whether city council housing contains dangerous concrete
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'Rapid' look into whether council homes have dangerous concrete : Many buildings containing the type of concrete have been described as "crumbling"
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'Rapid' look into whether council homes have dangerous concrete
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Thousands at risk from fire in Camden's council homes: Report by regulator lists safety failures
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Thousands at risk from fire in Camden's council homes
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Elderly woman died of hypothermia after call to housing association about faulty boiler was unanswered
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Elderly woman died of hypothermia after call to housing association about ...
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Camden Council breaches consumer standards as 9,000 homes without smoke alarms: Thousands of fire safety actions are overdue in social homes, a watchdog has ...
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Camden Council breaches consumer standards as 9,000 homes without smoke ...
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Michael Gove pledges 30,000 new social homes per year to tackle 'indefensible' housing crisis
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Michael Gove pledges 30,000 new social homes per year to tackle ...
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Camden Council left tenants at ‘potential harm’ over fire safety failings, report finds
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Camden Council left tenants at ‘potential harm’ over fire safety failings ...
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A new law has been passed in memory of Awaab Ishak, the two-year-old little boy who died following prolonged exposure to mould at a Rochdale social flat ... Show more
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Awaab's Law is now a reality - and will save lives: The Social Housing (Regulation) Bill has received Royal Assent today. It includes changes to the law in ...
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Awaab's Law is now a reality - and will save lives
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Thousands of Birmingham council tenants and families are living in homes that are potentially putting them at serious risk of harm ... Show more
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Civitas agrees to 'undervalued' £485m takeover following wave of criticism from press and shortseller
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Civitas agrees to 'undervalued' £485m takeover following wave of ...
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Dudley Council breached housing health and safety standards: DUDLEY Council has been found to have breached health and safety requirements potentially putting ...
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Dudley Council breached housing health and safety standards
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Haringey Council pledges £5m to fix 'major' housing failings: Haringey Council plans to spend nearly £5 million fixing “major and systematic failings” in its ...
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Haringey Council pledges £5m to fix 'major' housing failings
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Landlords must act now over mould after death of Awaab Ishak, says watchdog: The Regulator of Social Housing began an investigation after a coroner ruled the ...
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Landlords must act now over mould after death of Awaab Ishak ...
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London council left tenants at ‘potential risk’ with health and safety failings, watchdog finds
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London council left tenants at ‘potential risk’ with health and safety ...
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Report finds 'notable' mould and damp in around 160,000 social homes: The report follows the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak in a mould-infested Rochdale flat.
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Report finds 'notable' mould and damp in around 160,000 social homes
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Darlington Council issues damp and mould support for homeowners: A council has vowed to prioritise issues of damp and mould in homes, as it launches a new policy ...
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Darlington Council issues damp and mould support for homeowners
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Darlington Council issues damp and mould support for homeowners: A council has vowed to prioritise issues of damp and mould in homes, as it launches a new policy ...
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Darlington Council issues damp and mould support for homeowners
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Anger and disappointment as rejected plans for ‘rabbit hutch’ flats...: Plans for ‘rabbit hutch’ flats which were rejected by council planners have been granted ...
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Anger and disappointment as rejected plans for ‘rabbit hutch’ flats...
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Watchdog highlights 'serious concern' about Cheshire housing firm ForHousing: The Regulator of Social Housing has downgraded ForHousing’s governance score over ...
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Watchdog highlights 'serious concern' about Cheshire housing firm ...
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Concerns over firm which manages thousands of council homes: ForHousing manages 5,500 homes on behalf of Cheshire West and Chester Council but looks after a ...
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Concerns over firm which manages thousands of council homes
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‘We owe our landlord £1m in rent – but they’ve left us with substandard homes’: Homeless charity’s fight over rent arrears adds to property funds’ woes ...
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‘We owe our landlord £1m in rent – but they’ve left us with substandard ...
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Call for 'concerted action' as social housing mould complaints soar: CAMPAIGNERS have demanded “serious, concerted action” from politicians after new ...
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Call for 'concerted action' as social housing mould complaints soar
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Awaab Ishak death: Rochdale housing chair to quit after damning report: Social landlord waited nearly two years to check other properties after infant died in ...
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Awaab Ishak death: Rochdale housing chair to quit after damning report
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Awaab Ishak: Housing body where toddler died to be stripped of new government funding
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Awaab Ishak: Housing body where toddler died to be stripped of new ...
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Gentoo boss Nigel Wilson steps down with immediate effect after four years: Gentoo CEO Nigel Wilson is stepping down, the housing firm has announced.
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Gentoo boss Nigel Wilson steps down with immediate effect after four years
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'Furious' Gove orders councils and housing providers to assess mould after death of boy, 2
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'Furious' Gove orders councils and housing providers to assess ...
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Housing boss of mouldy flat that killed toddler held job at provider criticised by regulator
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Housing boss of mouldy flat that killed toddler held job at provider ...
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Tenants' feedback on Watford social housing called for: Tenants living in social housing are being surveyed on how satisfied they are with their living ...
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Tenants' feedback on Watford social housing called for
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London council failed to ensure thousands of social homes were safe: A London council has admitted “indefensible errors” were made by failing to ensure thousands ...
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London council failed to ensure thousands of social homes were safe
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The '£1 a week' room ads luring homeless and desperate to Brum: Adverts offering rooms for rent for people on benefits for as little as £1 a week ...
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The '£1 a week' room ads luring homeless and desperate to Brum
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Apology offered to tenants over gas safety checks as plans put in place to rectify failures
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Apology offered to tenants over gas safety checks as plans put in place to ...
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Hundreds of failed gas safety checks leaving council tenants at risk: A council has been issued with a regulatory notice following its failure to complete ...
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Hundreds of failed gas safety checks leaving council tenants at risk
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Council gets warning from regulator over housing safety checks: Redbridge "did not have an effective system in place" to check its 4 ...
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Council gets warning from regulator over housing safety checks
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'Queensway Southend £575m regeneration could start next year': PLANS on a major £573million town centre overall could start next year says a housing association ...
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'Queensway Southend £575m regeneration could start next year'
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Housing firm's £2.3m payout after hundreds of tenants overcharged: Beyond Housing says it has "self reported" the matter to the Regulator of Social ...
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Housing firm's £2.3m payout after hundreds of tenants overcharged
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Greenwich: South London council left tenants at ‘serious’ risk over fire safety failings, says regulator
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Greenwich: South London council left tenants at ‘serious’ risk over fire ...
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Bolton: Yasmine Qureshi MP appeals after Clarion 'cyber attack': A social housing company that has properties in Bolton has been subjected to a cyber attack.
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Bolton: Yasmine Qureshi MP appeals after Clarion 'cyber attack'
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Council's housing 'meets the needs of all residents': In his column, the leader of South Kesteven District Council talks about developing housing that meets the ...
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Council's housing 'meets the needs of all residents'
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More than £130m in public money handed to housing providers named and shamed by regulator
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More than £130m in public money handed to housing providers named and ...
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‘Raped by the landlord’: Grim reality of housing for the most vulnerable: Investigation: May Bulman and Simon Murphy find widespread concern about a sector ...
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‘Raped by the landlord’: Grim reality of housing for the most vulnerable
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Hundreds of housing tenants overcharged: SOCIAL housing landlord Incommunities failed to set rents correctly – resulting in hundreds of tenants being overcharged ...
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Hundreds of housing tenants overcharged
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Incommunities in trouble with social housing regulator: SHIPLEY-based social housing provider Incommunities has been rapped after the regulator found it had ...
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Incommunities in trouble with social housing regulator
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Sandwell Council homes did not have electrical safety check records: Electrical safety checks for more than a thousand council tenants in the Black Country have ...
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Sandwell Council homes did not have electrical safety check records
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Electrical danger fears in 1,200 homes in 'shocking' council failure: The council has referred itself to a housing watchdog after 1,245 were discovered to not ...
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Electrical danger fears in 1,200 homes in 'shocking' council failure
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Queensway developer Swan Housing under fire in new report: QUESTIONS have been raised over a £575 million plan to build more than 1,700 homes after a government ...
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Queensway developer Swan Housing under fire in new report
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Property heavyweight slams housing reforms in Queen's Speech: 'Nothing new - simply old policies re-hashed'
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Property heavyweight slams housing reforms in Queen's Speech: ...
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Fears over Swan Housing's role in Queensway regeneration: FEARS building about the viability of a £575million regeneration plan as a housing partner drops other ...
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Fears over Swan Housing's role in Queensway regeneration