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Features
Ultimate Estate Agents’ Guide: Housing ministers
The Negotiator runs a critical eye over the ever revolving door of politicians who have taken on the housing brief, most of whom have not lasted long.
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New Housing Secretary and Minister appointed amid Boris Johnson’s night of the long knives
Following Boris Johnson's Cabinet 'carnage', we now have a new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and a new Housing Minister.
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Five new garden towns to unlock up to 64,000 homes
Five communities will receive a share of £3.7m of funding to fast-track the specialist survey work and planning works necessary for each new town’s development.
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Malthouse for PM! Housing minister joins race to become Tory leader
52-year-old launches his campaign in The Sun claiming to have 'fresh ideas' and a track record of building homes for 'young people'.
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Land & New Homes
More property to sell! Minister reveals 10,000 new homes to be built on government land
Kit Malthouse claims £15 million initiative will save taxpayers money and create more jobs.
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London borough requests new powers to rent out billionaires’ ‘ghost homes’
The London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has requested extra powers to enable it to rent out the 600+ ghost homes within its borders.
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Land & New Homes
365,000 properties bought via Help to Buy so far government claims
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government claims over 360,000 homes have now been bought via its Help to Buy scheme.
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New housing minister is former pensions under secretary Kit Malthouse
A new housing minister has been announced just hours after Dominic Raab left the post and his name is Kit Malthouse, Tory MP for North West Hampshire. Malthouse was until today Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance at the Department of Work and Pensions. One of his key responsibilities has been to oversee the implementation of Universal Credit. The 51 year-old-has former accountant has limited experience of property or the housing market. His previous political jobs have included being a councillor in Westminster during the late noughties, rising to be deputy leader of the council. During his time there he became famous for agreeing its deal to extract £12.3 million from its former leader Shirley Porter. He was then elected onto the London Assembly until 2012, during which he became Deputy Mayor of London for policing under Boris Johnson, and then Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise until 2015. housing minister Malthouse was then selected to be MP for the safe seat of North West Hampshire, which he won by nearly 24,000 votes in the 2015 election. Despite working for former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, Malthouse is from the centre of the Conservative Party and…
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