Welcome to the NEW online guide to careers in housing.
There's never been a more interesting time to be involved in housing. A leaf through any edition of Inside Housing, the leading weekly magazine for housing professionals, proves the point. Each week the magazine demonstrates how much the housing sector is changing and evolving and how much the nation's health, wealth and well-being depends upon its success. With Tony Blair and Gordon Brown taking a personal interest in housing, it's now at the centre stage of political and economic debate.
As a result, there can never be a more interesting time to work in housing. The days when it meant simply collecting rents and ordering repairs are long gone. Those are still important jobs that have to be done but they're carried out as part of a wider drive to improve neighbourhoods, regenerate run-down areas and address the shortage of affordable homes for people on low incomes and key workers such as teachers and police officers.
By clicking on jobs, you'll find the evidence of the huge variety of jobs available in housing. Whether it's working for a local authority or a housing association, a campaigning charity, a co-operative or the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the range of employers is wide and growing wider. The rewards are good, but housing is not just another job where pay and benefits are all the count. It's a job that can provide great personal satisfaction in helping people in need where the results are there to be seen before your eyes
This guide is designed to explain the options available and to open the eyes of students and job hunters to the wide and rewarding opportunities available in housing.