Articles in the CIH Category
Call for Social Housing Sector to Keep Building
The Government has called on the social housing sector to keep building more homes to support the economy, maintain employment and continue to create new housing opportunities for people – an issue Government believes remains unaffected by the current economic downturn.
Posted in CIH on 4 March 2009 Rural Wales needs to make better use of housing stock
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Cymru has welcomed a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) looking at the scale of Wales’ rural housing problem.
Posted in 2008, Affordability, CIH, Wales on 10 June 2008 Housing is a Key Link to Jobs
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) welcomes the new Housing Minister Caroline Flint’s focus on the problems of worklessness, but cautions against a policy that could undermine the important stability that housing gives to people often in transitional periods of their lives.
Posted in CIH on 7 February 2008 First time buyers pay over a third of income to mortgages
Average mortgage costs to income for first-time-buyers are now higher than they were in the 1990s at the peak of the last housing boom, while increasing numbers of households are moving into private rented housing, according to the newly published UK Housing Review.
Posted in Affordability, CIH, first time buyers on 26 January 2008 Inheritance Tax – A Missed Opportunity to Help First Time Buyers?
The government’s announcement to increase the threshold on inheritance tax liability to £600,000 for couples could have been designed to give thousands of people an opportunity to get a foot on the housing ladder, says the professional body for people working in housing.
Posted in CIH on 11 October 2007 New Regulator Must Have Wider Remit
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has called for the role of a new regulator to cover all providers of social rented housing, including local authorities, to ensure that all residents in affordable housing are protected to the same degree.
Posted in CIH on 19 September 2007 CIH responds favourably to Government plans
The Chartered Institute of Housing has responded positively to the Government’s Housing Green Paper.
Posted in CIH on 25 July 2007
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