Mayor's advisor slates 'joke' housing estates

Speaking in tongues

Seen but not heard

Overcrowding board to reach beyond housing

Health officials could sit alongside housing sector figures on a new board to monitor overcrowding in the capital, the advisor to the Mayor of London has said.

London mayor tackles foreign rough sleepers

The mayor of London is organising meetings with foreign embassies in a bid to tackle the number of overseas nationals who are sleeping rough in the capital.

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‘Social housing, once a support for families working hard to give their children something better, has too often become a place of inter-generational worklessness, hopelessness and dependency.’

Tenants on the move

A group of London housing associations has launched a scheme to help unemployed tenants relocate to get back into work. Alex Turner reports

Giving good guidance

How housing association staff are mentoring troubled teenage tenants. Emily Rogers reports

Not a sticking plaster

Efforts to tackle anti-social behaviour can seem like fire fighting. It’s expensive to take a more comprehensive and long-term approach by working with a single family to get to the root of their problems. But, as Tony Powell, executive director of neighbourhoods at New Charter Housing Trust, explains, the effect can be transformative.

Dressed for success

Birmingham’s Forgotten Vintage is much more than just a second-hand fashion store. Laura Jane Johnson reveals how it is helping the city’s homeless

Cheaper by the Durkan

The contractor charged with giving an east London estate a facelift also threw in comprehensive energy retrofitting - at no extra cost. Jess McCabe finds out more