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<h2><a href="/">Blue skies (1)</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 November 2023</p>
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<p>John Perry says the consultation paper on housing capital finance could allow councils to borrow under similar rules to the semi-privatised Post Office </p>
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<p class="feature_date">01 September 2023</p>
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<p>Full council tax on second homes is only part of the solution to the countryside's housing shortage says Jo Lavis</p>
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<h2><a href="/">Cash boost for Scots</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 September 2023</p>
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<p>Angus MacKay says it is time to rethink the historical way Scotland divides its monies among ministries </p>
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<h2><a href="/">This is not the 1990s</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 September 2023</p>
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<p>House prices are not about to repeat the boom and bust of the early 1990s, says Steve Wilcox, because mortgage costs remain affordable </p>
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<h2><a href="/">Cooling the boom</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 July 2023</p>
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<p>Julian Birch weighs up tax reforms to control house price inflation</p>
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<h2><a href="/">Spending conundrum</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 July 2023</p>
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<p>John Perry previews the spending review and finds that housing's sums for England may not add up </p>
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<h2><a href="/">Improvement required</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 July 2023</p>
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<p>Allan Wilén examines the apparent growing gap between the government's plans for refurbishing social housing and action on the ground </p>
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<h2><a href="/">Not quite a transfer</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 May 2023</p>
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<p>Aberdeenshire's 30 year business plan is the basis for a novel alternative to stock trasnfeer, says Colin Hawkins </p>
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<h2><a href="/">Unlimited credits</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">01 May 2023</p>
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<p>Failure to reform housing benefit could limit the success of Gordon Brown's big welfare idea, warns Steve Wilcox</p>
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<p class="feature_date">01 May 2023</p>
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<p>Competing with private developers for public money is the stuff of mightmares for housing association finance directors. Andrew Drury looks at the implications </p>
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<p class="feature_date">01 November 2023</p>
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<p>Changing the rent regime to reduce annual increases from RPI plus one per cent to RPI only will devastate stock transfer landlords’ ability to repair and build houses, argues Barry Thompson. Could abolition of real rent increases spell the end of transfer-led housing?</p>
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