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NHF to work with Empty Homes Agency on filling voids
The Empty Homes Agency is set to hold talks with the National Housing Federation about filling void properties more quickly.
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Plans to pool capital receipts 'jeopardise affordable housing'
National pooling of right-to-buy cash would remove incentive to build, say councils
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Archive TitlesAttitude adjuster
The new chair of English Partnerships is pulling an old-fashioned organisation into a more modern way of working – and if the staff cop an attitude about that, they'd better get out of her way.
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Councils offered share in £6m cohesion fund
Councils in England and Wales are being invited to bid for a slice of a £6m fund to set up pilots for community cohesion in their areas.
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450 Walsall council staff face the axe
Half of Walsall council’s housing service staff could lose their jobs if a planned stock transfer goes ahead.
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Kent services set for £24m boost if council meets benefit bill targets
The treasury will give kent council up to £24m in extra cash to spend on welfare projects if the council makes savings on its benefits bill.
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£14m home improvement fund will combat bed blocking
The money will go to home improvement agencies which adapt homes to make them suitable for older people.Speaking at the housing improvement agencies conference in Birmingham this week, junior housing minister Tony McNulty said the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister would invest an extra £5.2m over three years on ...
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Seven out of 10 want to keep the right to buy
MORI/Housing Today poll finds strong public support for council house sales
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South-east has room for 70,000 more affordable homes
Small plots of brownfield land add up to 1000 ha of potential building space, says SEEDA
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Transfers without tears
Warranties need not be a battleground for councils and transferees.
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Think tank
Warden woesA 77-year-old friend of mine, Mrs M, moved into a sheltered housing scheme three years ago with a permanent warden service. The warden provided regular checks on residents and helped them with filling in benefit claim forms, picking up prescriptions and collecting pensions. But in June the full-time warden ...
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Archive TitlesRound two
A year on from the first round of approvals, another 13 arm's-length management organisations are coming online. What's the secret of their success? Chris Wheal visited Brent, which lost out last year but has come back to win in …
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Archive TitlesPublic & Private
Livingstone's target of 50% affordable housing in London can be achieved, says Dino Patel
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Paddle power:
Paddle power: Residents of the UK's largest retirement village enjoy a canoeing expedition organised by their new landlord, Arena Housing Association, a subsidiary of Arena Extracare. Arena's £19.5m Ryfields Village development in Warrington, Cheshire, has now been completed and can house more than 300 elderly people. It offers care and ...
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An indecent proposal
As the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment starts working with the Housing Corporation and housing associations, we are in the unique position of newcomer and outsider, and are therefore able to assume ignorance and ask difficult questions. So permit me a difficult question: should we be placing so ...
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Images of ujima:
Images of ujima: Late Tottenham MP Bernie Grant (right), who died in 2000, is pictured helping Ujima Housing Group staff move into a new area office in a recently published book charting the 25-year history of Britain's first black-led housing association. The limited edition How Many Storeys is published by ...
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Metropolitan Housing Trust
In last week’s column by the housing ombudsman the name of the landlord in the case concerned was wrongly omitted (HT 3 October, page 35). The landlord was Metropolitan Housing Trust. Housing Today apologises to the ombudsman and to Metropolitan Housing Trust for this error.
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Here's an idea
Front-line workers at a Scottish council learned important self-defence skills