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Two years of pandemic and increasing economic turmoil are taking their toll everywhere, and the first inklings of the long-term repercussions for the social housing sector are revealed by the NFA’s latest annual survey.
Delayed new-build programmes and shortages of skill and experience in the labour market are adding further pressure to hard-pressed local authorities. They are already struggling to fund the significant additional costs of complying with new building safety regulations and urgently needed zero-carbon work.

Retrofit, building safety, affordable housing – councils and their ALMOs can’t carry all of this alone Read More »

Increasing government demands on local authorities – building safety works, net-zero targets and affordable housing provision – are putting council housing managers and Housing Revenue Accounts under unbearable pressure, findings from a survey published today reveal.
While the recent Levelling Up White Paper recognises that more genuinely affordable social housing is part of the solution to regional inequalities, it doesn’t suggest where the funding might come from to achieve this. Without more help from the centre, social housing providers, including councils and their ALMOs, will struggle to deliver the new homes for rent that the market desperately needs.
Data from the annual members’ survey conducted by the National Federation of ALMOs – managers of over 300,000 council-owned social housing homes – show there is no slack left in Housing Revenue Accounts or wider local authority resources.

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