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The leading monthly magazine for social housing professionals in the UK

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Revealed: full list of Inside Housing Development Awards 2025 winners We reveal which organisations and developments won awards at the 2025 Inside Housing Development Awards

25.11.2025 23:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Major house builder completes deal for more than 1,200 homes Henry Boot has completed the sale of a site in Staffordshire, with planning permission for 1,270 homes, to major house builder Persimmon Homes

25.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

20,000 new affordable homes in Wales would reap £3.6bn in community value, a report finds Building 20,000 new affordable homes in Wales over the next four years would deliver £3.6bn in net present value benefits for residents and communities over the next 30 years, according to a new report by Community Housing Cymru and Savills

25.11.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THFC strengthens top team with three senior appointments The Housing Finance Corporation has revealed three new senior appointments as it looks to strengthen its top team

25.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New designate chief executive appointed to Hertfordshire landlord ahead of merger Thrive Homes and Watford Community Housing have appointed a designate chief executive ahead of their proposed merger

25.11.2025 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Homes England reveals more details on housing bank, including CME route Homes England’s chief investment officer has confirmed the National Housing Bank will always offer the continuous market engagement route

25.11.2025 11:20 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Inside Housing Living publishes survey of fastest-growing for-profit housing providers Inside Housing Living, the new site from the makers of Inside Housing, has published an exclusive survey tracking the progress and pipelines of the top for-profit registered providers

25.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sector Budget asks: uprate LHA and temporary accommodation subsidy, and keep Warm Homes Plan Tomorrow Rachel Reeves will share her Autumn Budget, updating the nation on the state of the public finances and the government’s spending and taxation plans. Stephen Delahunty has some of the sector’s key asks

25.11.2025 10:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

S&P affirms Stonewater A- rating but downgrades stand-alone credit profile Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has affirmed Stonewater’s A- credit rating and stable outlook but downgraded the housing association’s stand-alone credit profile from bbb+ to bbb.

25.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inside Housing upgrades sustainability coverage and launches Cities Encyclopaedia Inside Housing has today upgraded its sustainability coverage and launched a brand new Cities Encyclopaedia

25.11.2025 08:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Asset strategies for 2026: repair, regenerate or rebuild? A roundtable discussion hosted by Inside Housing, in association with NEC Software Solutions, aimed to understand how social landlords are thinking about their assets and guiding strategies into the near future

25.11.2025 07:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Customer experience can’t be designed from behind a desk Being customer obsessed is about understanding what customers actually experience, writes Sarah Evans, executive director of customer experience at Yorkshire Housing

25.11.2025 06:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How well do housing providers feel they know their residents? The third instalment of a research project in association with NEC Software Solutions asked housing professionals how well they feel they know their residents, how they identify and address vulnerabilities, and what solutions they have found to better connect with residents

25.11.2025 06:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GLA and developer launch paid scheme for young Londoners interested in housing A paid careers scheme giving young Londoners the opportunity to learn about and influence estate regeneration in the capital has been launched by Mount Anvil and the Greater London Authority

24.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New social housing could add more than £5bn to economy by 2035 More than £5bn could be added to the economy if the government meets its social housing targets in the next decade, according to a new study

24.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Northern Ireland's 15% slump in completions a ‘clear red flag’, says CIH Northern Ireland’s 15% fall in new home completions over the past year has been described as a "clear red flag" by the Chartered Institute of Housing

24.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

L&Q upgrades £60m repairs service amid £3.7m investment in customer service team One of the UK’s largest housing associations has announced it will spend £60m upgrading its repairs service and has invested £3.7m in its customer service team

24.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Completions rise significantly at Peabody as margin improves with £26m rise in surplus Large London landlord Peabody has seen a large rise in new home completions, alongside a rise in turnover and surplus that led to an improved operating margin

24.11.2025 10:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rent tribunals could be overwhelmed by Renters’ Rights Act without reforms, lawyer warns A property lawyer is warning that the government will not be able to tell if the rent appeal tribunal system is overwhelmed following the Renters’ Rights Act due to a lack of baseline data

24.11.2025 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More than 80% of people experiencing homelessness battling multiple health problems, report finds More than 80% of people experiencing homelessness are dealing with multiple “debilitating” physical health issues, according to new research by the membership body Homeless Link

24.11.2025 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inside Housing launches new site covering living sector Ocean Media Group, the company that owns Inside Housing, has today launched Inside Housing Living, a new online publication covering institutionally funded housing, also known as the living sector

24.11.2025 07:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The first days of Awaab’s Law: how are social landlords coping? With Awaab’s Law now in effect, Ellie Brown finds out the initial impact on social landlords and how they prepared

24.11.2025 07:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When the average SHDF completion rate is 35%, how have we reached 185% of our retrofit programme goal? Government-funded energy efficiency programmes can be delivered in a relatively short space of time, writes Chris Morris of Plus Dane Housing

24.11.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

November 2025 digital edition of Inside Housing out now The November 2025 digital edition of Inside Housing is now available to subscribers

24.11.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Homes England strikes new joint venture to build 2,250 homes Homes England has announced a new joint venture with European investor and developer Swiss Life to build 2,250 homes

21.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Greater Manchester to deliver 3,000 homes in first wave of £1bn growth fund Greater Manchester is aiming to deliver nearly 3,000 homes as part of the first wave of its new £1bn fund to “turbocharge regeneration”

21.11.2025 15:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cardiff Council prepares to submit 26,400-home local plan to government More than 26,000 new homes could be delivered in Cardiff under a local development plan that the council is preparing to submit to the Welsh government

21.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Week in Housing: Homes England reveals more details on SAHP, BSR chair interview and watchdog learnings The Week in Housing is our weekly newsletter, rounding up the most important headlines for housing professionals. Sign up below to get it direct to your inbox every Friday

21.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Minor building work should be taken out of the BSR’s scope, says chair Minor building work to high-rise blocks is likely to be moved out of the scope of the Building Safety Regulator’s oversight, amid a major shakeup led by its new chair

21.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Government promises to allocate cash based on need in response to Fair Funding Review consultation In its response to the Fair Funding Review 2.0 consultation, the government has promised to allocate funding to councils based on “true local need”

21.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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The leading publication for finance, business and governance in affordable housing, www.socialhousing.co.uk

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I am a housing researcher and direct the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence at the University of Glasgow. Reposts and likes do not necessarily imply assent.

James Allen
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Stephen Delahunty
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News editor @insidehousing - focus on building safety. Contact: stephen.delahunty@oceanmedia.co.uk

Matthew Pennycook MP
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Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich | Minister of State for Housing and Planning | Email: matthew.pennycook.mp@parliament.uk

Harbour Light Housing Association
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Harbour Light is a micro Housing Association specialising in providing supported accommodation to people with Mental Health difficulties, Learning Disabilities and/or Autism. https://www.harbourlight.org.uk/

TPAS Cymru
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Representing tenant voice and engagement across Wales. TPAS Cymru supports tenants and landlords through training, support & policy development to ensure every voice is heard.

Planning Futures
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A cross-sector corporate membership organisation bringing together the most well-respected voices in planning to share ideas, initiate collaborations and communicate the sector's priorities to key political and administrative stakeholders.

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Carnegie UK is an independent charitable foundation that works to deliver better wellbeing for people in the UK and Ireland. #CollectiveWellbeing

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Investigative reporter @sourcematerial.org | Climate change, corruption, democracy | luke@source-material.org | He/Him

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Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio. Data, education, tech assistance, & advocacy... together. Also see: Rentful614.com & Bloom614.com

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CEO of the outstanding Curo, Chair of Local Space HA and Board Member of NHF. Share thoughts mainly on #housing some #music #arsenal & #Portuguese footie when it matters.

Aileen Evans
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Past Pres & Vice Chair Chartered Institute of Housing. Recovering HA CEO. Twins & Step Mum. Loves Cricket, Tea & Bach. Loathes injustice and believes everyone has a right to a good home.

Matt Downie
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Trying this out…desperately seeking sanity. CEO of Crisis. Chair of London Youth Theatre.

Sebastian Payne
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Leader writer and columnist @thetimes.com Previously seen at Onward and FT. Author of Broken Heartlands and The Fall of Boris Johnson.

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Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.

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Chair: RUSI, Conservative European Forum, Koenigswinter Conference & Aurora Forum. Trustee, Institute for Govt. History, singing & hill walking enthusiast. Ex-Minister & MP.

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