The Local Government Associations (LGA) municipal bonds agency will help local authorities secure funding more easily and cheaply, new research suggested.
Localis’ Director of Policy and Research, Steven Howell, is quoted in The MJ’s recent piece on the reorganisation of local government.
I have worked both in Government as a civil servant and in politics so Im no stranger to cynicism.
Town halls must bring in better-skilled staff if they are to begin building homes on a large scale, a government review has said.
Dozens more councils have been allocated funding for affordable homes and smaller housing associations have become the biggest bidders, as larger landlords shunned government cash in the 2015-18 funding round.
The number of households councils prevented from becoming homeless increased by 15% last year compared to the previous 12 months, official statistics reveal.
Localis’ Changing Places report was quoted in a piece for the LGC.
Ministers have today announced where the £2bn in Growth Deal funding will be allocated across all 39 English Local Enterprise Partnership areas from 2015/16.
Localis’ chief executive, Alex Thomson, is quoted on the Growth Deal funding announcement.
Alex Thomson appeared on BBC News 24, speaking about the Government’s Growth Deal Announcement and the implication for local areas.