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Spot the difference
28/04/2011
Devolution means politicians in Scotland and Wales can stray from the UK party line. But is there really such a big difference? Rhiannon Bury finds out.
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Show some support
15/04/2011
While Supporting People services in England are being cut, Wales is fully committed to the programme
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Welsh parties unveil housing policies
15/04/2011
The main political parties in Wales have outlined radically different proposals for social housing in their manifestos, published this week ahead of National Assembly for Wales election next month.
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£1m package to tackle ASB
21/03/2011
The Home Secretary will today announce a £1 million funding package to help victims of anti-social behaviour.
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26 reasons to be proud
18/03/2011
Last week we launched House Proud - Devolved, a campaign to highlight the importance of housing in the run-up to May’s elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Here we present a whole alphabet of reasons why ignoring housing’s vital role in society is not an option
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Housing must stress economic role
17/03/2011
The housing sector needs to raise its game and persuade politicians of its importance to the economy.
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Make the case for housing
11/03/2011
Last year Inside Housing launched its House Proud, campaign to push housing up the political agenda in the run-up to the UK general election. Now it’s back to bang the drum for the sector as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland prepare to go to the polls. Emily Twinch and Isabel Hardman report
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Free booklet makes the case for housing
30/04/2010
The housing industry is set to fight its corner in the post-election battle for resources with the publication of a new booklet from Inside Housing and the Chartered Institute of Housing.
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House Proud hat trick
30/04/2010
Inside Housing and the Chartered Institute of Housing’s House Proud campaign has achieved its three aims to become a hot election issue. Lydia Stockdale looks back at the campaign and explains why the fight must go on
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Take pride
30/04/2010
In step with the nation’s politicians the past few months have seen Inside Housing visit all corners of the UK in order to spread our pro-housing message.
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On the campaign trail with Dave Rowntree
28/04/2010
Following the progress of Blur drummer and Labour candidate Dave Rowntree as he attempts to win over voters in the safe Conservative area of Cities of London and Westminster.
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Dave and Goliath
23/04/2010
Blur drummer and Labour candidate Dave Rowntree picked a formidable political battle when he chose to stand for the Conservative safe seat of Cities of London and Westminster. Nick Duxbury joins him for a day on the campaign trail to find out if it’s a fight he can win. Photography by Tim Foster
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Fear and loathing
23/04/2010
Anti-social behaviour can blight people’s lives and destroy neighbourhoods. Caroline Thorpe speaks to victims and housing professionals to discover how social landlords are contributing to the national fight against troublemakers to improve community life
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Brown: build more for less
09/04/2010
A future Labour government would launch a ‘new deal’ for housing that would mean more homes being delivered with less funding, the prime minister has announced.
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Prime minister’s question time
09/04/2010
The general election was finally called this week - on 6 May Britain will choose its next government. In the first of a series in which we quiz the leaders of the three main political parties, Inside Housing asks prime minister Gordon Brown why social housing employees and their tenants should vote Labour
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Election panel: readers back HRA reforms
08/04/2010
Government plans to give councils freedom to manage their own housing finances in exchange for taking a share of £25 billion of debt have been broadly backed by Inside Housing readers.
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Election date prompts calls for support
06/04/2010
Housing professionals have called for all political parties to make clear commitments to housing, as the date for the election is announced.
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Speaking out
30/03/2010
Tenants of midlands-based Accord Housing Association explain what they would like from the next government.
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NHF chief David Orr explains why he backs House Proud
22/03/2010
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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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Shelter chief executive Campbell Robb explains why he is backing the campaign
04/03/2010
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Help me help you to save the planet
26/02/2010
Housing providers hold the key to meeting UK climate change obligations. Policy makers ignore it at the planet’s peril. Caroline Thorpe delivers the latest instalment in the House Proud series
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The proof’s in the eating
26/02/2010
He has used his constituency to talk up the Conservatives’ ideas on national housing policy, but are the voters in shadow housing minister Grant Shapps’ back yard impressed with his ideas? Lydia Stockdale went to meet them.
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Vote for the best House Proud manifesto pledge
22/02/2010
Should it be health, the environment or residents that housing policy puts first? It’s time to cast your vote on the housing pledge which no election manifesto should be without.
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Housing needs you
05/02/2010
Just a month after its launch, House Proud has won the support of all three main political parties, with each pledging to include housing in its election manifesto. This week we’re opening the floor to our backers, says Caroline Thorpe, and asking for your suggestions on what those pledges should be
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House Proud: Education
29/01/2010
In the latest of our House Proud campaign series, which aims to put housing at the heart of politics, Caroline Thorpe finds out why better housing means a better education and, ultimately, a better life
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House proud: Health
22/01/2010
Last week, we launched House Proud, our campaign to put housing at the heart of the general election debate. In the first of a series of articles showing how housing benefits all the main policy areas, Lydia Stockdale looks at the links between housing and health
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Parties pledge manifesto commitment to housing
22/01/2010
The three major political parties have signed up to Inside Housing’s new House Proud campaign and promised to make housing a key part of their manifestos.
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Be loud and proud!
15/01/2010
In October last year Inside Housing fired the starting gun on the general election by running the sector’s first ‘hustings’ event in the countdown to May’s expected polling day.
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IH launches new campaign
15/01/2010
Inside Housing is this week launching a campaign to take housing to the top of the political agenda as we enter a general election year.
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Make the case for housing
15/01/2010
Housing is society’s unsung hero - and it’s time to change that. As election campaigns begin, it’s crucial we up our influence by shouting about the massive benefits our sector delivers year in, year out. Today Inside Housing and the Chartered Institute of Housing launch House Proud, a new campaign to help you do just that
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CIH chief executive Sarah Webb launches the campaign
14/01/2010
A video introduction to the House Proud campaign, which is calling for greater recognition of the importance of housing services