All Archive Titles articles – Page 1109
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Think tank
How should we treat under-18s?With the changes in homelessness priorities, could the panel advise me on how best to provide tenancies/licences for persons aged under 18? My organisation used to seek guarantors to fall back on, should the contract break down with under-18s, but we now use introductory tenancies.This is ...
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Archive TitlesStoke's path to recovery
In the last in our series on regeneration projects, the city of Stoke comes under the spotlight. In the face of massive unemployment and chronic housing problems, a pathfinder initiative is gearing up to stop the rot.
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Resolving the paradox of market renewal
I am sitting in the kitchen of a resident on a council estate on the periphery of one of our northern cities, a neighbourhood situated within one of the nine pathfinder housing market renewal areas.
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ODPM poised for PFI rethink as officials hold urgent talks
Worries over length and cost of bids prompt discussions on alternative options
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High-flyer
He's fallen 10,000 ft in the space of a minute, yet Darra Singh is still on the up and up. Housing Today met the unflappable, skydiving chief executive of Luton council
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Happy together
The days of monolithic council housing departments operating in splendid isolation may soon be over. Many councils and housing associations are coming around to the idea that distributing their housing empires across departments improves services all round.
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Transfer staff lose out on leave but gain on pay
Transfer association staff lose out on sick pay and annual leave but gain higher salaries, a groundbreaking study into voluntary transfers has found
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United House pulls out of east London PFI scheme
Another bidder for the government's troubled private finance initiative in council housing has pulled out – as the government moved to shore up confidence in the programme
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ODPM questions Rooker decency prediction
The office of the deputy prime minister has moved to downplay a prediction by Lord Rooker last week that 150,000 council homes will fail the decent homes target
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How to … Train staff to deal with learning disabilities
Mark Linington says it's essential to involve service users every step of the way
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Damage limitation
An accident can make or break an RSL unless it has a clear investigations procedure
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Developers should get funding direct from Housing Corporation, says lobby group
Developers should receive funding direct from the Housing Corporation, according to a report published today
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Archive TitlesRSLs set to compete with private housebuilders
Proposed changes to Housing Corporation rules would remove need to set up subsidiary
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Editor's comment
Is the private finance initiative a credible mechanism for renovating housing estates? Confusion reigns over many aspects of the government's housing policy at the moment, but its stance and aspirations for PFI are particularly messy.