We are in the depths of the worst housing crisis since the Second World War, but there is a solution which has worked before and will work again – building council housing. Today, to push the issue ...

FLATS in a seaside town are being refurbished to house asylum seekers – while hard-hit locals claim they are forced to wait ...

Over the summer we saw several claims circulating about social and council housing, and in particular housing waiting lists. Social and council housing are often used interchangeably, but it’s worth ...

A REFORM-RUN council is plotting a 10% council tax rise for households, despite the party promising to cut bills. Nigel ...

Angela Rayner is is expected to set up a 'council housing revolution' as she is handed almost £1biillion in next week's budget. The deputy prime minister is planning to double council house building ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Local authorities have urged the UK government to “wake the sleeping giant of housebuilding” by allowing ...

Those who are in the UK illegally are not eligible to apply for council housing. A post on Facebook suggests that council housing stock is “readily” available for “illegals” when “British” households ...

Its figures are absent from our story this year – the council refused to respond to our FOI request. Birmingham stated that it intends to release data on its building programme this month, but “it ...

Southwark Council suspended its plan to directly allocate properties to people waiting for housing, admitting it “goes against our values of openness and transparency”. Three families on the council’s ...

Thousands of town residents face waits of up to 12 years for a new council home in what one councillor described as a "dire" situation. A recent report by the company that manages Stockport Council's ...

A council lost millions of pounds on a housing development company whose performance was "not regularly tracked", according to a leaked report. Last month Norwich City Council agreed to liquidate Lion ...