Inside Housing
10/11/2000
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Associations admit having no anti-social behaviour policies
10/11/2000
More than half of all housing associations have admitted they do not have effective policies for dealing with anti-social behaviour, according to a Housing Corporation survey.The results of the survey are included in a new best practice guide on tackl
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Corporation steps in on Bentilee board
10/11/2000
The Housing Corporation has imposed three statutory board members on a local housing company just two years after it was formed.Bentilee Community Housing took over 920 flats from Stoke Council in 1998, but has had severe problems in recruiting board
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First new homes in Cambuslang for half a century
14/11/2000
The first new homes to be built in Cambusblang, South Lanarkshire, for more that 50 years started on site this week. Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association is building 40 semi-detached homes for rent for local people, backed by £1.6 million i
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Glasgow¹s homeless hostels to close
14/11/2000
The Scottish Executive has committed 12 million pounds to implement the recommendations of a new report into street homelessness in Glasgow. This will include the phasing out of old-style homeless hostels.The Glasgow Review Team report on street homel
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Government set to snub sector's help for key workers
10/11/2000
The government is set to exclude rented schemes from its starter home initiative, it has emerged.Campaigners have warned that restricting the £250 million initiative to home ownership projects will price out workers the government most wants to help,
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Landowners could supply more rural housing
14/11/2000
Scottish landowners could play a significant role in solving rural housing shortages according to new research. Around 1,800 extra homes could be provided though the conversion of redundant buildings. Landowners are keen to participate in partnership arr
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New public housebuilding the 'gloomiest building sector'
14/11/2000
Builders have been plunged into fresh gloom by a huge decline in enquiries from housing associations about placing new orders.The Construction Confederation's trade survey for July to September 2000 shows that new public housing 'remains the gloomiest
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Right to buy advert banned
14/11/2000
The Office of Fair Trading has banned an advertisement which claimed that the right to buy scheme for council tenants was coming to an end.Lesley Lindley, trading as Your Right To Buy (South West), issued a leaflet which claimed 'time is running out'.