News releases

Highlighting the crucial need to address issues surrounding rural housing, investment into rural housing is at the top of the agenda at a major Housing Corporation conference taking place on Wednesday 8 October at the London Hilton Metropole, Edgware Road.

HomeBuy Direct, a £300 million initiative aimed at helping up to 10,000 first time buyers currently frozen out of the mortgage market meet their housing aspirations and supporting the house-building industry, was launched today by the Housing Corporation.

A ground breaking gallery installation highlighting real life stories of how gaining an affordable home has helped to transform the lives of 22 residents from across the country opens in London on Friday 10 October 2008.

New regulation and guidance to encourage and support tenant empowerment come into effect this week (Wednesday 1 October 2008) as new Right to Manage regulations and changes to the Tenant Empowerment Programme are introduced.

The Housing Corporation’s 2008 assessment of the financial viability of housing associations will be overseen by a panel made up of senior Housing Corporation regulation staff and external consultants.

New guidance, released today (Thursday 18 September) at the annual National Housing Federation conference by Building for Life Chair Wayne Hemingway, explains how to implement Building for Life standards in new affordable housing developments.

The chairman of the new social housing regulator, the Tenant Services Authority (TSA), delivered a firm message to housing associations yesterday (Wednesday 17 September) when he said that the social housing sector had “fallen off the pace”.

New guidance for housing associations aimed at providing services to victims of domestic violence has been published by the Housing Corporation.

Measures and reforms announced today by the Government in response to the current challenges faced by the housing market have been welcomed by the Housing Corporation.