Hints and tips:
...Local authorities such as Stoke are at further disadvantage when it comes to raising revenues from council tax because the properties on which tax bands are calculated tend to be less valuable in poorer...
...At least 10 councils, including Middlesbrough, Stoke-on-Trent, Somerset, Southampton and Bradford, have applied to the government for “exceptional financial support” to balance this year’s books....
...Gove’s recent policy changes, formally announced in December, include a commitment not to force local authorities to build on the greenbelt regardless of the need for housing....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Alongside the moral qualms, critics claim “shorting” stokes panic, crashes stock prices and punishes the public....
...But now almost all — including big Conservative-run county authorities in Hampshire and Kent as well as the city of Stoke-on-Trent — are sounding the alarm....
...In Isleworth and Stoke Newington, Essex and Croydon local authority enforcement teams struggle to deal with scores of “homes” barely the size of a double bed, some without windows....
...The biggest yields were to be found in smaller university towns, such as Stoke-on-Trent with a yield of 9.4 per cent, and Swansea with 9.2 per cent....
...Ljubljana residents have taken to Reddit, where they seethe about the lack of housing, and ask each other for tips to find an affordable home....
...The Housing Act of 1924 delivered over half a million council houses in the following nine years and laid the foundations for the local authority housing that still shapes our towns and cities....
...Alan Jarrett, who lost his position of leader of Medway council in Kent after the Labour party achieved a historic victory in the authority, said the results reflected the general “unpopularity” of the national...
...And this time around President Emmanuel Macron and his government have sought to defuse tensions rather than stoke them....
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...Henry, an urbanist and architect, has been an influential voice on housing and design in the Greater London Authority as well as a founder of Sound Advice, which explores the connections and communication...
...But more than a decade old, it’s starting to show its age — as with several of BIG’s Copenhagen projects, it could do with some TLC from the city authorities....
...In both the US housing crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis that followed it, announcements such as this were as likely to stoke fear as to soothe it....
...Many local authorities have significantly depleted social housing (ie actually affordable housing). This is modern Britain, where many ills can be traced back to the housing crisis....
...So instead, I have listened again to my RHFs for Stoke-on-Trent North, Dudley North, Witham and others, as well as the Sun Newspaper’s “Keep it Down” campaign....
...as well as monetary and financial authorities, as recent events illustrated,” he said in his statement....
...Heseltine pushed through a flagship Thatcher programme of selling social housing to local authority tenants — creating a new wave of capitalist Tory voters — and later went on to do battle with the Campaign...
...Some Scottish Tory MSPs have said the party’s popularity in Scotland was previously undermined by UK policies such as the imposition of the “bedroom tax”, a cut to housing benefit for public housing tenants...
...“The housing voucher programme gets no cash support from the central bank....
...I am also announcing a further £161m for regeneration projects in Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority....
...There are people like Adair Turner, who is from the Financial Standards Authority, who say that that’s not a desirable thing....
...Digital Deeds It is a sellers’ market: both in the US housing market and the metaverse....
International Edition