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<h2><a href="../../opinion/braced_for_the_cuts">Braced for the cuts</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">26 October 2023</p>
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<p>Forget doing ‘more with less’. For housebuilders, it’ll be all about doing ‘anything with nothing’
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/a_capital_idea">A capital idea</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">20 October 2023</p>
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<p>The inadequacies of the housing market have been laid bare by the economic crisis. Now is the time to take a serious look at taxation reform, says Tom Crawshaw
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/down_not_under">Down, not under</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">19 October 2023</p>
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<p>The crunch may be far from over, but we will get through it if we all pull together, argue Peter Williams and Donald McKenzie
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/back_office_left_to_their_fate">Back Office: Left to their fate</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">19 October 2023</p>
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<p>The demise of right to buy will have a devastating effect on council budgets
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/flaw_in_the_plan">Flaw in the plan</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">04 September 2023</p>
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<p>Government‘s move to an asset-based welfare policy depends on continuously rising house prices. Whoops, says Matthew Watson.
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/backoffice_now_for_the_hard_bit">Back Office: Now for the hard bit</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">04 September 2023</p>
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<p>If the HRA is to be dismantled, some serious compromises will be needed.
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/man_with_the_plan">Man with the plan</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">18 February 2024</p>
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<p>Build more affordable homes, protect jobs, shore up a struggling industry and fill Treasury coffers? Yes we can, says Brian Green.
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/landed_in_trouble">Landed in trouble</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">18 February 2024</p>
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<p>What the country needs is a national bank of reconstruction.
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/recovery_position">Recovery position</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">18 February 2024</p>
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<p>We’re not out of the woods yet, says Peter Williams. But there are growing signs that confidence is returning to some markets.
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/back_office_itrsquos_a_write-off">Back office: It’s a write-off</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">02 January 2024</p>
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<p>The current social housing business model is broken, so let’s move on</p>
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/anyone_for_squash">Anyone for squash?</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">02 January 2024</p>
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<p>More bail-outs in the US and a shrinking UK mortgage market. Crunch and squeeze just aren’t strong enough to describe what’s going on, says Peter Williams</p>
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/watch_this_space">Watch this space</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">18 November 2023</p>
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<p>Ashley Horsey on the threats to a breakthrough in affordable housing finance
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/no_more_nice_guy">No more nice guy</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">18 November 2023</p>
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<p>In the third of a series of articles on the housing market, Peter Williams charts the transition from the NICE to the VILE decade
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/fixing_a_hole">Fixing a hole</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">04 November 2023</p>
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Whose rent surpluses are they anyway? David Hall on the review of the housing revenue account
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<h2><a href="../../opinion/a_fine_mess">A fine mess</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">04 November 2023</p>
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Will the latest housing minister breathe new life into the plan for social housing, asks Sebastian Taylor
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