Quote "If the water is brown or black, people are told to run their tap for a few minutes and it should clear, and to try again after 20 minutes if it does not work the first time."
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Cruise city living: What I spend in a month in Southampton. 🛳️ #Southampton #Hants #CostOfLiving #Money #UKHousing

🏡📊 Top Stories of the Week: Skipton BS cuts rates and expands range and HMRC tax receipts hit £391.6bn

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It’s Friday, and time for our round-up of the main #UKHousing policy news and events from this week 🏘️📰

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Now included in www.thinkhouse.org.uk :: @BevanFoundation REPORT :: Informing the follow-up inquiry into empty properties :: Awaiting Editorial Panel assessment. #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

HQN associate @simplicitly.bsky.social is excited about the coming Residents' Network annual conference - the first in-person one for seven years! Read all about Rob's thoughts and hopes for the event in his latest article...

hqnetwork.co.uk/news/were-ba... #ukhousing

... excluding distortions, starts & completions are likely to fall away in 2026 H2 & potentially 2027 H1 due to falls in mortgage approvals & forward sales, combined with further rises in construction, financing & government's extra costs on house building. (11/end)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

... then this would just reflect developers bringing forward starts to build out later, dependent on demand. The broader picture for starts is that in Q2 they remained 33.3% lower than the recent peak (excluding that artificial spike in 2023 Q2) &... (10/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

It will be interesting to see if there is a spike in house building starts in 2026 Q3 given that the Building Safety Levy starts on 1 October. It applies on building control applications for new build (not just high-rise) but even if there is a spike due to this... (9/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

But clearly, although these high-rise developments can start, they will only be built out based on the level of demand & site viability, which may have changed substantially since they were initially put in for planning given construction & financing cost rises. (8/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

... house building starts in 2026 Q2 also benefitted from delays on new high-rise developments at Gateway 2 stage from the Building Safety Regulator (after planning approval but before project start) having improved since the worst of the delays back in 2025 Q2. (7/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

House building starts in 2026 Q2 continued to recover from the artificial low point of 2023 Q3 & Q4 (when house builders brought forward starts into 2023 Q2, just ahead of the deadline for building under old building regulations &... (6/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

It is also worth noting that the majority of the impacts of rises in construction products inflation & financing costs since the Middle East conflict will only affecting house building viability & activity in 2026 H2 & 2027 H1 due to lag effects. (5/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

... this points towards further falls in completions in 2026 H2 as the decline in mortgage approvals & housing demand since the Middle East conflict gradually feeds through to major house builders' work-in-progress (wip) & completions. (4/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

The quarterly fall in completions in 2026 Q2 is concerning as most major house builders were still building out until July from forward sales based on mortgage approvals & rates before the Middle East conflict but SME builders were already affected in Q2. However,... (3/n)
#ukhousing #ukconstruction

House building completions in 2026 Q2 were 3.4% lower than in Q1 but 1.5% higher than a year ago.

However, completions in Q2 were also 27.3% lower than at the recent 2021 peak & house building continues on its broadly downward trend of recent years. (2/n)

#ukhousing #ukconstruction

We finally have the official house building starts & completions data for 2026 Q2 from MHCLG.

There were 35,800 house building completions in England in 2026 Q2 & 143,490 completions in the year to Q2 according to MHCLG. (1/n)

#ukhousing #ukconstruction

Council Tax: stock of properties, 2026 www.gov.uk/government/s... updated statistics on housing stock in England and Wales from HMRC's Valuation Office

Includes small area (MSOA/LSOA) counts for Council Tax band, property type, and build period, as at 31 March 2026

#UKhousing #opendata

Latest #openaddresses from local government:

Harlow Council, in the East of England, has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... (no download yet)

Without UPRNs, so no map this time

#FOI #UKhousing #localgov #opendata

At a social #ukhousing conference today. Topical session title. Social housing is definitely part of the front line between decency and hate in our society.