Homes England has announced the Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) 2026–2036, a major capital grant initiative to deliver affordable housing across England.

The 2025 Budget introduces a new range of policy measures. Although it does not include new housing specific initiatives, it comes on the back of a number of housing measures that were introduced in the Spending Review in June.

Registered Providers (RPs) of Social Housing increasingly have reason to gain access to their tenants’ properties to fulfil their statutory, regulatory and contractual duties.

On 27 October 2025, the Renter’s Rights Bill (the Bill) received the Royal Assent.

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In this month’s Housing case alert, our experts, Gavinder Ryait, Sarah Christy and Laura Waby, summarise the housing cases following the Court of Appeal and High Court's recent hearings.

On 1 April 2024, The Regulator of Social Housing (Regulator) began its new inspection programme for large landlords under the rewritten consumer standards.

The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) 2024 suite of contracts was released throughout 2024, starting with the Design & Build forms in April 2024 and eventually working down to the Measured Term Contract last November.

The Government’s proposed Crime and Policing Bill is currently making its way through Parliament.

From 27 October 2025, the first phase of Awaab’s Law will come into force for the social rented sector.

The importance of robust contract management is coming to the forefront with the RSH.

From 1 September 2025, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 introduced a significant new corporate criminal offence: failure to prevent fraud.