Inside Housing
24/11/2006
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All under one roof
24/11/2006
In Milton Keynes developers contribute to the cost of new roads, schools and hospitals. It's a scheme that has stirred up interest around the country, says Neil Merrick
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Allocation must not provoke resentment
24/11/2006
Housing associations need to ensure that the way they allocate social housing avoids damaging relations between different ethnic groups, the deputy chief executive of the Housing Corporation has warned
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BME concerns mean Irish needs are overlooked
24/11/2006
The cultural needs of the Irish population in Britain are being neglected as attention is turned towards black and ethnic minority communities
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Board members face tenants taking them to court
24/11/2006
Digruntled tenants could take legal action against housing association board members under new legislation, the sector was warned this week.
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Brighter idea
24/11/2006
Ken Livingstone explains why his determination to tackle housing alongside other social, economic and environmental priorities just might change history
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Cash-strapped pathfinders face an uncertain future
24/11/2006
Two of the market renewal pathfinders are facing an uncertain financial future after one ran out of money and the other was warned its funding demands were ‘unrealistic'.
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Chain reaction
24/11/2006
The debate around community cohesion is highly charged – but housing providers must getinvolved, argues Steve Douglas
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Complacency must not hold back estate progress
24/11/2006
Housing demolition and regeneration projects can improve the lives of residents on problem estates, a 25-year study of 20 English developments has indicated.
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Corporation makes plea for service bill help
24/11/2006
Housing associations should be allowed to use recycled social housing cash to help leaseholders pay high service charge bills, according to the Housing Corporation
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Duo could form biggest UK provider
24/11/2006
Two of England's largest housing associations are lining up a mega-merger that would create the country's biggest social landlord.
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Fire alarm for overcrowded migrants
24/11/2006
Fire brigade chiefs are warning councils that eastern European migrants are living in potential death traps because increasing numbers are being crammed into houses in multiple occupation.
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Fourth negative ballot puts transfer policy in spotlight
24/11/2006
The Scottish Executive is under increasing pressure to come up with an alternative to stock transfer after tenants in a fourth local authority area voted no to the move.
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Gove: let's build on farmland
24/11/2006
The shadow housing minister has signalled a big shift in Conservative thinking on house building by suggesting new homes should be built on unused farmland.
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Greater effort needed to share credit data, say MPs
24/11/2006
A committee of MPs is urging housing providers to work more closely together after finding that the poorest people pay over the odds for credit.
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Labour vows to halt Welsh right-to-buy
24/11/2006
The Labour Party in Wales has pledged to suspend the right-to-buy in areas of high housing pressure if it retains control of the Welsh Assembly in next May's elections
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Outsider issues
24/11/2006
City centre streets may be a picture of multiculturalism but it's on predominantlywhite estates that the campaign for better community relations must be won. Caroline Thorpe reports in the second of our community cohesion specials
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Overseas developers could boost UK build ability
24/11/2006
The London mayor's office wants to draft in more foreign developers to boost the UK's house building capacity, the Thames Gateway forum heard this week.
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Packed prisons make it hard to resettle
24/11/2006
The ballooning prison population is making it more difficult for ex-offenders to find settled accommodation when they are released, according to the initial findings of a radical new resettlement project.
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Points of view
24/11/2006
Not satisfied with setting up four growth areas to meet ambitious new build targets, thegovernment has come up with a brand new initiative – growth points. Kate Allen reports
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Promised land
24/11/2006
Thames Gateway chief executive Judith Armitt has grand ambitions for her new patch.The pressure to perform is welcome, she tells Caroline Thorpe
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Scots providers forced to slash support services
24/11/2006
More than half of all Supporting People providers in Scotland are cutting services because of lack of funding, a survey has indicated.
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Treasury looks closer at super agency plans
24/11/2006
Communities secretary Ruth Kelly has been forced to delay her announcement on the creation of a new housing and regeneration super agency to allow the Treasury more time to pore over the details of the project.
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Welsh tenants give backing to second transfer
24/11/2006
Wales' second stock transfer is set to go through after tenants in Monmouthshire voted in favour of transferring their homes to a housing association
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Wider view of systems could equal savings
24/11/2006
Landlords could make huge efficiency savings by adopting a new ‘systems thinking' approach to management, a new study has claimed.