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Anyone with experience in social housing, a role on a local authority board or a keen interest in how homes are allocated now has the opportunity to influence upcoming policy. The House of Commons Public Bill Committee is accepting written evidence on the Social Housing Bill and is urging those with relevant expertise to submit their views promptly.
The Home Affairs Committee has announced a new inquiry into work‑based immigration, building on the findings of the Your Voice on Immigration programme. That programme ran a series of citizen‑assembly style events across the country, involving nearly one hundred participants who debated the trade‑offs of hiring from abroad versus training domestically.
The cladding crisis that has haunted UK households for years is set to take centre stage in Westminster Hall on 15 September, when MPs will debate the latest steps the government is taking to accelerate remediation of residential blocks. The session, opened by Dr Pinkerton MP, follows a December 2024 Remediation Acceleration Plan (RAP) that labelled the slow pace of work as "unacceptable" and promised swifter action for residents living with unsafe external walls.
The Speaker of the House, Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, has announced that Ms Abena Oppong‑Asare MP has been elected to chair the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. She assumes the role with immediate effect and will serve as chair until the current Parliament comes to an end.
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published a new report on social‑housing supply across England. The document follows a series of hearings in which local authorities provided evidence on the pace of delivery and the operation of the planning system.
Two of the leading professional bodies in England's social housing sector have joined forces to publish updated guidance on dealing with damp and mould. The Chartered Institute of Housing and the Chartered Institute of Building have produced the guide jointly, refreshing advice the CIH first issued in 2022 and bringing it into line with recent legal changes.
The buzz around Greater Manchester’s latest housing pledge is hard to ignore – a bold promise to deliver 50,000 new homes, with a particular focus on social and affordable units. For anyone watching the rental market or considering a first‑time purchase, the headline alone raises a question that goes straight to the heart of the region’s housing crisis: will this massive build‑out finally plug the funding gap that has left many projects stalled?
After months of debate in the House of Lords, the Social Housing Bill 2026-27 has arrived in the Commons, where its second reading is scheduled for 10 September 2026. For anyone with a stake in social housing — whether as a tenant, a landlord or a local authority — this is one of the most consequential pieces of housing legislation to move through Parliament in recent years, and its passage so far tells us a great deal about where policy is heading.
More than 10,000 households are waiting on Lewisham's housing register, and 2,450 households are currently living in temporary accommodation. Behind each of those numbers is someone waiting for a front door of their own, which lends real weight to the council's latest announcement.
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