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The latest press notices from the housing site.

• 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

• Grant Shapps: Tackling record deficit has helped keep repossessions down

  The Government's commitment to tackling the record deficit is keeping interest rates at a record low and a secure roof over the heads of millions of hard-working homeowners, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has said.

  • Added: 10 May 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Government on target to smash public land ambition

  Whitehall departments are set to smash the Prime Minister's ambition to release previously-used public land for building the homes this country needs, Housing Minister Grant Shapps said today.

  • Added: 7 May 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Surge of interest in national home swap scheme

  Housing Minister Grant Shapps has hailed the national home swap scheme, HomeSwap Direct, as inquiries via the new scheme passed the million mark.

  • Added: 30 April 2012
  • Site: Housing

• National taskforce to end the problem of 'beds in sheds'

  A new national taskforce will be set up to tackle the issue of "beds in sheds" by taking action against criminal landlords and removing illegal immigrants.

  • Added: 30 April 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Help to get boxed-in generation up the property ladder

  The boxed-in generation - people unable to upsize their home but who have also outgrown their first property - will for the first time benefit from support to help them move up the housing ladder, Grant Shapps said today.

  • Added: 24 April 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Downing Street hosting the self-build boom

  A package of new support to give as many people as possible the opportunity to build their own homes was announced today at England's most famous address by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.

  • Added: 19 April 2012
  • Site: Housing

• George Clarke appointed empty homes adviser

  Architect and TV presenter George Clarke is to be an independent adviser to the Government to help bring thousands of empty homes back into use for families in need of stable, secure homes, Ministers have announced.

  • Added: 11 April 2012
  • Site: Housing

• 'Sound' investment to help build more affordable homes

  Moves to encourage more private investment in social housing have been announced by Ministers.

  • Added: 4 April 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Revamped Right to Buy is chance of a lifetime for tenants

  A new generation of social tenants were today handed the keys to homeownership, as the Prime Minister and Housing Minister Grant Shapps launched a reinvigorated Right to Buy.

  • Added: 3 April 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Cash to wounded warriors - Government commitment to support our troops beyond the battlefield

  Cash payments for councils who have adapted the homes of wounded soldiers injured in the line of duty have been announced by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.

  • Added: 23 March 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: 'Invest to save' and offer support to vulnerable people

  Councils must 'invest to save' and protect their most disadvantaged residents, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has said.

  • Added: 20 March 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Stalled building sites to get funding boost

  Over 200 stalled building projects will receive a share of a multi-million pound pot to get Britain building again, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced.

  • Added: 19 March 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Tackling neighbours from hell

  Communities will now have a new way to combat the neighbours from hell who ruin neighbourhoods and cause misery for fellow tenants, Housing Minister Grant Shapps announced today.

  • Added: 16 March 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Helping tenants take control

  Plans to make it easier for council tenants to take control of their local neighbourhood and services have been announced by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.

  • Added: 15 March 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Unlocking aspiration for a new generation of home buyers

  Details of two ambitious schemes that will unlock the aspirations of a new generation of home buyers, and get Britain building thousands of new homes, were unveiled today by the Prime Minister and Housing Minister Grant Shapps.

  • Added: 12 March 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: Safety net of support working to protect thousands at risk

  Grant Shapps today said new figures, showing a 14 per cent increase in the number of households accepted for homelessness help in England last year, underlined that many people were still suffering from the debt-laden economy.

  • Added: 8 March 2012
  • Site: Housing

• Grant Shapps: New £5m 'payment by results' deal to get rough sleepers off London's streets

  An innovative new 'payment by results' scheme to help London's persistent rough sleepers off the streets and into secure homes was launched today by Housing Minister Grant Shapps and London Mayor Boris Johnson.

  • Added: 7 March 2012
  • Site: Housing