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Good governance key to delivering more social homes, says regulator

09/09/2025

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has highlighted the importance of strong governance in ensuring tenants have access to more and better homes.

‘Very serious failings’ found in council’s social housing

27/08/2025

Arun District Council’s housing service has been hit with the regulator’s lowest rating after inspectors uncovered ‘very serious failings’.

Lloyds social housing ad branded ‘misleading’

22/08/2025

A Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) advert stating that the lender had provided £19.5bn to social housing projects has been banned by the advertising watchdog.

Council home sell-offs to outpace new builds eightfold

21/08/2025

Local authorities in England are set to lose over eight times as many council homes in 2025/26 as were completed the previous year, think tank has estimated.

Tenancy fraud punished in Hackney

15/08/2025

Several council houses have been taken from fraudulent tenants who were revealed to own multiple properties.

Call for one hundred thousand high-quality council homes

14/08/2025

Council housing stock in the UK must be ‘replenished’ and improved in design, a think tank has argued.

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LocalGov Weekly Round Up

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