Rural Affordable Housing
Rural communities are grappling with a severe affordable housing crisis, marked by high house prices, elevated living costs, and lower incomes, threatening their sustainability and vitality.
28 Sep 2020
New report to boost affordable housing supply published
The Affordable Housing Commission’s new report ‘A National Housing Conversion Fund: buying properties to boost affordable housing supply’ was published last week The report calls on the government to prepare...
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01 Sep 2020
New rules will worsen the rural housing crisis
A letter, co-signed by the Rural Services Network, the Rural Housing Alliance, Plunkett Foundation and Acre has been featured in the Telegraph on 29th August 2020, highlighting the rural housing...
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24 Aug 2020
Affordable Homes at Risk under new Planning Consultation
The Rural Services Network, along with Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE), The Rural Housing Alliance, The Plunkett Foundation and Rural England Stakeholder Group, has written to the Secretary...
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24 Aug 2020
Supply of affordable homes in the countryside threatened
As detailed in the Rural Bulletin this week, The Rural Services Network (RSN), along with ACRE, the Rural Housing Alliance, Rural Services Network (RSN) and Plunkett Foundation have written to...
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10 Aug 2020
Government sets out far-reaching planning overhaul
Outlets including The Mirror, Greenock Telegraph and Building.co.uk report that ministers have been warned against prioritising homes for the ‘fortunate few’ as part of an overhaul of planning rules Housing...
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03 Aug 2020
Princess Royal calls for more affordable housing in rural areas
The Princess Royal has guest edited a special edition of Country Life, in which she talks about the need to increase affordable housing in rural areas Taking on the role...
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20 Jul 2020
More Affordable Housing needed says Commission
The Affordable Housing Commission has issued a report “Making Housing Affordable After Covid-19” Whilst not specifically about rural housing the report’s analysis and recommended 12 point housing recovery plan are...
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13 Jul 2020
The Rural Housing Alliance ask the Government to focus on rural housing
The Rural Services Network, along with the Rural Housing Alliance, the National Housing Federation and Acre, have written to Secretary of State Robert Jenrick MP in Rural Housing Week to...
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06 Jul 2020
Homes for Heroes: huge lack of affordable homes for rural key workers
New analysis finds over nine in ten rural areas are unaffordable for care workers in the private rented sector as rural housing week 2020 begins CPRE, the countryside charity, and...
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22 Jun 2020
Negative impacts of Covid-19 on the delivery of rural affordable housing
The RSN, ACRE and Rural Housing Alliance have written to Robert Jenrick – Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government expressing concerns about the negative...
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