Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Housing associations in England have cut their planned spending on new affordable homes in 2024 in the face of budget pressures, threatening to worsen the UK’s acute shortage of social housing. Investment planned for 2024 fell by 9 per cent, or £1.5bn, according to plans drawn up last year, while funding over the coming decade was cut by £20bn, or 15 per cent, according to research by Centrus, a financial adviser that works...