Inside Housing
05/03/2010
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A bold salvo
05/03/2010
‘I can point to one or two things I have definitely learned by being hard up. I shall never again…subscribe to the Salvation Army.’ So wrote perhaps the most famous resident of a Salvation Army hostel in 1933 in Down and Out in Paris and London.
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ALMO tenants to be balloted on transfer
08/03/2010
Tenants of a north east arm’s-length management organisation will be asked whether their homes should be transferred to a housing association.
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Anchor names new chief executive
10/03/2010
Anchor Trust has announced its replacement for housing’s highest paid chief executive John Belcher, who left the association in November.
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Asset Skills - Housing Heroes sponsor profile 2010
08/03/2010
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Associations enjoy dip in interest rates
05/03/2010
Housing associations are borrowing money at much more favourable rates than at any time since the start of the downturn, according to the Tenant Services Authority.
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Better safe than sorry
05/03/2010
As Inside Housing’s Safe as Houses campaign reaches its climax, Emily Twinch salutes the manner in which the sector has pledged to follow up its key aims
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Between the lines
05/03/2010
The Tenant Services Authority has received 500 consultation responses on its new regulatory framework and has come to the conclusion that it’s generally good news. So would Inside Housing’s interpretation tally? Caroline Thorpe delves into the paperwork to find out
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Budget cuts hit Highland house building
11/03/2010
Highland Council has announced it is facing a 45 per cent cut in funding for affordable housing in the next year.
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Calming measures ahead
05/03/2010
Police force speed awareness programmes were the inspiration for a new programme designed to steer tenants away from developing anti-social behaviour. Steve Gough reports
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Campbell Tickell - Housing Heroes sponsor profile 2010
08/03/2010
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Chief executive quits Town and Country
05/03/2010
The chief executive of a Kent-based housing association has left following a difference of opinion with the board.
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CIH study backs tenant-led regulation
09/03/2010
Resident-led self-regulation of housing organisations could improve social housing and cut the need for external intervention, a study has concluded.
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Council flaws led to £1m legal failure
05/03/2010
Auditors have criticised Cheltenham council for running up a £1 million legal bill in a failed attempt to sue an ex-chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing.
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Déjà vu
05/03/2010
Britain’s response to the post-war housing shortages provides a timely example on tackling our own supply crisis, argues Jon Cruddas
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Disabled cash row eased
05/03/2010
Disabled people will not be handed total control over their Supporting People funding in a pilot scheme housing associations feared would jeopardise supported housing projects.
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Downturn sees training activity cut
08/03/2010
Nearly 70 per cent of social landlords expect their training activities to be hit by the economic downturn this year.
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EMA - Housing Heroes sponsor profile 2010
08/03/2010
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Fire investigation predicts timber frame growth
11/03/2010
Preliminary findings from a London Assembly fire safety investigation suggest demand for affordable housing will see a sharp increase in tall and timber-framed buildings.
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Former director of housing dies
09/03/2010
Brian Platt, who had worked as director of housing for a number of councils in London and Essex, and as a board director at architectural firm Hunters, has died aged 63.
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Fuel for thought
05/03/2010
Think through the consequences of installing a combined heat and power plant, says Andrew Barnard
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Give us a break
05/03/2010
The demand for intermediate housing is huge - lenders need to help meet it
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Healey writes off Byker’s £44m debt
05/03/2010
John Healey has agreed to write off £44 million of housing debt to help with the regeneration of Newcastle’s Byker estate.
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Housing Heroes sponsor profile 2010 - The Hire Standard
08/03/2010
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Housing officer TV show to return
11/03/2010
A fly-on-the-wall television documentary following housing officers in the north west is to return to the screen next year.
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Housing providers among top employers
08/03/2010
Huntingdon-based housing association Luminus heads a list of fourteen social landlords that feature in the Sunday Times’ 100 best companies list for 2010.
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Housing supply puts pressure on prices
09/03/2010
The rate at which homes are coming onto the market is outpacing growth in demand, putting downward pressure on prices.
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Insight - Housing Heroes sponsor profile 2010
08/03/2010
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Lack of recognition for minority resident groups
12/03/2010
Housing providers should work with marginalised groups to create better communities, according to a report.
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Landlords shun green power
05/03/2010
Housing associations have been switching off environmentally friendly heating systems in favour of traditional power sources.
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London councils in targets standoff
05/03/2010
Two London councils have still not had their affordable housing targets signed off by the mayor’s office, it emerged this week.
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Mears’ turnover rises 26 per cent
09/03/2010
Repairs and maintenance firm Mears increased its social housing revenue by 26 per cent last year, its preliminary results have shown.
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Minister to clear up Glasgow 'slum'
10/03/2010
The Scottish housing minister has suggested setting up ‘hit-squads’ to clear up an area of Glasgow.
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More eco-towns in green planning reforms
10/03/2010
The government has announced two new eco-town sites, as it unveiled a series of planning changes to encourage sustainable development.
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MPs cast doubt on coalfield regeneration
11/03/2010
MPs have voiced ‘serious concerns’ about whether government efforts to regenerate former coal mining areas have achieved value for money.
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MPs criticise ministerial turnover at CLG
08/03/2010
High rates of ministerial turnover in the Communities and Local Government department have been criticised by a committee of MPs.
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No substitute for care home support
05/03/2010
I read Chloë Stothart’s article ‘Watchdog tells councils to reduce care home spending’, (www.insidehousing.co.uk, 18 February) with great interest and want to share my support for providing older people with independent living provisions.
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Norwich rocked by procurement row
05/03/2010
Norwich Council’s housing department has become embroiled in a second major dispute in just over a year after being prevented from awarding a £17.5 million housing maintenance contract.
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Numbers of homeless households drop
12/03/2010
The number of people homeless dropped by 22 per cent in the last quarter of 2009, compared to the same period the previous year.
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Reaping the benefits
09/03/2010
Ninety per cent of calls to Stroud’s revenues and benefits department were ‘waste’, the council has found. Peter Middleton explains how it came to this conclusion, and what it did about it.
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Report calls for subletting to be a criminal offence
09/03/2010
The unlawful subletting of council homes should be made a criminal offence on a par with benefit fraud, according to a think tank.
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Salvation Army rebrands its hostels as ‘lifehouses’
05/03/2010
The Salvation Army is to drop the term hostel and rename its accommodation for homeless people as ‘lifehouses’.
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Stalled schemes get £83m from Kickstart
09/03/2010
The government has allocated nearly £83 million to 87 developments in the second round of its £1 billion Kickstart scheme.
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Step in the right direction
05/03/2010
In last week’s edition we published the latest instalment in our House Proud campaign.
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Surveys do give accurate results
05/03/2010
I thought that the feature ‘A measure you can’t trust’ (Inside Housing, 5 February) was misleading.
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Sweeping changes
05/03/2010
The regulation of health and social care providers faces an overhaul. Linda Convery explains the implications
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The Canadian way
05/03/2010
Canada’s Winter Olympic Games provided a chance to rethink Vancouver’s housing policy
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The complete works
05/03/2010
Social landlords are employment generators, providing training, work placements and jobs - all with massive savings for government. What’s not to like? Lydia Stockdale takes the House Proud campaign on a job hunt
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Time to act
10/03/2010
Justin Sumner gives his thoughts on how the latest economic developments could affect the housing market
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Tougher laws to tackle 'weapon' dogs
10/03/2010
The home secretary has set out plans to toughen laws on dangerous dogs, in response to fears that animals are being used to ‘intimidate communities’.
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TSA rebrands standards ahead of launch
11/03/2010
The Tenant Services Authority is to change the names of the standards it expects landlords to reach on a national and local level before their launch next week.
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Two-star rating for midlands landlord
11/03/2010
Daventry and District Housing Association has received a two-star rating from the Audit Commission for its housing management.
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United House faces buy-out
11/03/2010
United House, one of the largest social housing contractors in southern England, is on the verge of a management buy-out.
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Victims should have ‘guarantee of protection’
05/03/2010
The Home Office is preparing to tell housing departments how to deal with vulnerable victims of anti-social behaviour in the wake of the Fiona Pilkington case.
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Work experts target housing estates
10/03/2010
Employment experts are to be sent into some of the most deprived housing estates in Britain in a £12 million drive to get more people into work.
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Youth charged over sheltered housing deaths
09/03/2010
A 15-year-old boy has appeared in magistrates’ court charged with killing a couple living in sheltered housing in Warwickshire.