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The banks have promised to act responsibly to ease our way out of the housing crisis, but first-time buyers are being offered loans that could push them to the brink of disaster. Report by Tom Marshall and Bill Rashleigh

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Meeting the needs of a rapidly ageing population places a huge burden on public finances. But a demographic timebomb could jeopardise government housing strategy. Tony Marshall reports

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The perfect storm? How bad will things really get for housing associations? Julian Birch reports.

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New houses in Germany are cheaper than their British counterparts and on average 50 per cent larger. Given that the two countries have a similar population density, what’s going wrong in the UK? By Oliver Marc Hartwich

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A multi-billion pound development programme offers housing associations the chance to consolidate their position as the country’s leading social housing provider - but the risks to expansion leave no room for complacency, argues Sebastian Taylor.

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What happens if associations are left with swathes of low-cost home ownership schemes that no one wants to buy? Sebastian Taylor talks to the Corporation’s Peter Marsh

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The NHF is fighting the Housing and Regeneration Bill. But is the underlying message of privatisation in Martin Cave’s 2017 review the real threat to associations’ independence? asks Peter Malpass

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Far more homeowners are struggling to stave off repossession than lenders admit. Tony Marshall reports

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Institutional investors are being lined up to finance the Olympic village and its transformation into homes. So who will be the winner? By Tony Marshall

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A generation ago a very different Labour government tried to solve the housing crisis with a green paper. Peter Malpass analyses the results

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