All Archive Titles articles – Page 1141
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Think tank
The price of managementI live in a close of 12 shared-ownership houses in an area containing 25 more units wholly rented from a registered social landlord. The service charges are calculated on the total number of units and then allocated to each home. The 2001 calculation of service charge sheet ...
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Witness rehousing to speed up
As fast-track scheme to rehouse vulnerable and intimidated witnesses of crime will be launched in the autumn.
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Archive TitlesTrading places
Trading places: Melanie Salvidge and her two children, Liam Jai and Megan, have traded in their flat on a rough estate in Sutton, Surrey, for a three- bedroom house in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. The family moved up north as part of Sutton Council's Changing Places relocation scheme. The council has more ...
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RDAs take over Urban Summit
The boosted role of regional development agencies will be a key issue at the Urban Summit next month.
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Transfer notes
Staff are crucial for stock transfer. I mean this in a positive sense – a council will not be able to organise mass door-knocking without them – but also in a negative sense: if staff are not on board, tenants will wonder why they should trouble to give positive ...
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Never say never
Introductory tenancies continue to survive human rights challenges in the courts … for now
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Archive TitlesThe magic number
The magic number: Niami Muhamed and her three children outside their new three-bedroom flat. The family were previously living in a one-bedroom flat. They moved to their new home after Islington council converted three empty properties on Hornsey Road in north London, part of the council's drive to bring empty ...
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Archive TitlesWho are you to judge?
With the formation of a single inspectorate for housing well under way, Saba Salman got together four leading figures from the world of housing and local government inspection and examination and asked them …
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Quasi-corporations idea revived as stock option
Special corporations that are free to borrow money for improvements should be set up to take over council housing, a leading finance expert has said.
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Transfer rate on hold pending Prescott's review
Transfer activity has slowed in recent months as councils await the outcome of deputy prime minister John Prescott's review of housing stock options.Although transfers which have already received a "yes" vote are going through, figures in the latest edition of the National Housing Federation's Transfers Today show transfers that many ...
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Here's an idea
Going for a stroll boosted morale and got tenants involved in a Dorset housing association
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New towns are old hat
Concentrating housing resources is outdated and short-termist, says Barbara Thorndick
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Archive TitlesI'm a tenant ... get me out of here!
Tenant participation on housing association boards is a noble goal in theory but, once committed, many tenants end up feeling they've bitten off more than they can chew.
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Archive TitlesDefender of the space
The new president of the Council for the Protection of Rural England has gone from Fleet Street to green belt, and he's in a determined mood. He fields questions from Gemma White
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Prescott delays stock option decision until next year
Stalling of announcement will allow new research to be taken into account
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It's crunch time for the sector's influence
After decades of seeing housing in the political doldrums and what seemed like the annual ritual of reducing housing programmes, it's good that each of the two spending reviews so far have led to a greater focus on housing and increasing resources for housing and regeneration.
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Eat humble pie, Hull councillors told
Hull politicians will today be urged to admit that they failed to run the council properly and provide good services.
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Partial transfer ‘will push up management costs’
The potential pitfalls of one of the government’s favourite means of meeting the decent homes target were highlighted last week by a prominent expert.
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Lenders frustrated by increased competition and low returns
Dexia decides to stop lending for up to two years, saying it is not worth its while
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How to … Compete with professional fundraisers
Nick Beanland helped William Sutton Trust tenants to raise £650,000 last year alone