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This section contains the latest news, ministerial speeches, statements and articles from the Housing site.

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• Grant Shapps: Revamped Right to Buy to deliver thousands of new homes

  Details of how thousands of new affordable homes will be built using the cash proceeds from the Government's reinvigorated Right to Buy scheme have been unveiled by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.

  • Added: 15 May 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Kevin McCloud to support the self-build surge

  Kevin McCloud has been appointed by the self-build industry to support the national surge of interest in people looking to design and build their own home.

  • Added: 14 May 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: £1.8m to tackle scandal of 'beds in sheds'

  Criminal landlords trapping vulnerable people in 'suburban shanty-towns' will get the justice they deserve, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has pledged.

  • Added: 11 May 2012
  • Site: Housing

Latest speeches, statements and articles

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• The boxed-in generation

  Speech by Housing Minister Grant Shapps to the Home Builders Federation Annual industry lunch.

  • Published: 24 April 2012
  • Speech by The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

• Housing Update

  Written Ministerial Statement by the Minister for Housing Grants Shapps about the Government's action on housing, following the publication of the Housing Strategy in November 2011.

  • Published: 1 February 2012
  • Statement by The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

• Disabled Facilities Grant

  Today the Department for Communities and Local Government is announcing the local authority allocations of the £20 million additional funding for the Disabled Facilities Grant in England.

  • Published: 17 January 2012
  • Statement by The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP