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Need to know

Our first ever Need to Know supplement is packed to the brim with best practice examples and useful facts and figures

Fighting his corner

New Labour’s former housing supremo talks house building, localism and ‘that egg’. Lydia Stockdale enters the ring …

Keeping the peace

Darra Singh is the man the government has tasked with discovering what caused the summer’s riots. So who is he and how is his work progressing? Lydia Stockdale finds out

No panacea

Facing the future

Riots, job shortages - it’s been a tough summer for young people. Martin Hilditch investigates how one housing association is helping

The shortlist

Emily Rogers visits the council that is replacing allocation forms with face-to-face meetings to vet prospective tenants

Money matters

How do council housing heads and arm’s-length management organisation bosses fare in the salary stakes? Lydia Stockdale reveals the results of Inside Housing’s exclusive poll

The big freeze

Kicking off our chief executive salaries special, Inside Housing’s annual survey reveals the economic downturn has put most pay on ice. Lydia Stockdale reports

Dangerous type

The demotion of a housing employee over comments he made on Facebook highlights the grey area between employees’ public and private lives. Here, Lydia Stockdale finds out how others can avoid getting themselves into trouble