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...and renting them back to the local authority and we are all paying housing benefit on it,” said Pennycook....
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...This can only be achieved if we restore the eroded capacity of planning authorities so that deep-pocketed developers cannot out-gun them into diluting the rules....
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...“The housing market has continued with its perennial issue of inelastic supply. There are far too few houses being built, and the number has been falling as local authorities have cut back.”...
...“Each local authority or council has got the option of whether they want new homes or not,” he said. “I don’t see any improvement until there is a change of government . . ....
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...But those depressed by the state of the UK housing market will be even less so....
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...landlords to add a unit of long-term housing for each unit let out on Airbnb....
...Levelling up secretary Michael Gove told the Times that local authorities would have three months to put in place plans to meet their housing needs....
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...new housing.”...
...Gove said housing targets based on calculations of local needs would “remain the basis” of the system but confirmed these would be “advisory”....
..., housing, planning, employment support and energy....
...Last year the government made concessions to anti-development backbench Tory MPs, including loosening rules around requiring local authorities to meet their local housing needs....
...One housing department official said: “The secretary of state has been clear he prefers peppercorn in interviews and in parliament....
...The rent-a-room scheme helps increase the supply of low-cost accommodation for renters, particularly for students and other young people, willing to lodge in someone else’s home....
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...George Washington and Thomas Jefferson....
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