All Archive Titles articles – Page 1151
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Give the people what they want
Key workers prefer using low-cost home ownership schemes to renting, says Steve Walker – just look how popular they are
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Archive TitlesStorey so far
Once upon a time there was a Lib Dem councillor called Mike Storey. He spent 10 years watching Liverpool sink into the ground. Now, as council leader, he's pulling it up again with an impressive renewal programme.
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Quangos face tougher financial scrutiny
MPs call for boards and chief executives to be more accountable for performance
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Rent formula was flawed from the start, say experts
In April 2000 Nick Raynsford, then housing minister, launched rent restructuring in the first housing green paper for 23 years, writes Janis Bright. Councils were slow to protest. By the time their campaigning got seriously under way, the formula for rent restructuring was all but decided.
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Expand the starter home initiative into the north of England, urges Harrogate
Harrogate council has appealed to the deputy prime minister for cash to help key workers hit by galloping house price inflation.
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Terms of endearment
Employment legislation is changing. Get the facts or you could discriminate unintentionally
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Archive TitlesElephant trap
England's largest regeneration project has chewed up £33m over three years and is gaining notoriety as an embarrassment for all concerned. So what has Elephant & Castle got to show for it? Not very much, says Stuart Macdonald
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Archive TitlesNew digs
New digs: Hyde Housing is to run Greenwich University’s new student accommodation, which opens on 9 September. The 230-bed development is above Cutty Sark Docklands Light Railway station in Greenwich, south-east London. The London Development Agency and Greenwich council helped with the scheme. Hyde will lease the accommodation from the ...
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Archive TitlesCrisis gets a new emphasis, a new home and a new look
Focus will shift from reducing rough sleepers to helping the 'hidden homeless'
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Councils get more freedom to pay people to move
From Next year, Councils will be free to design and run incentive schemes to release housing.
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Editor's comment
Are developers simply a bunch of filthy capitalists out to fleece the public purse? Are councils and tenants’ groups stuffed with loony lefties who still see profit as a dirty word? The answer to both these questions is, of course, no.Why is it, then, that so many public-private projects founder ...
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Archive TitlesEdinburgh Festival forces homeless out of city
Homeless people in Edinburgh are being taken by taxi to nearby towns because of a shortage of bed and breakfast accommodation in the city.
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Liverpool councillor: North deserves more cash
London has seven times as much cash to spend on housing than have Liverpool and the North, according to Richard Kemp, Liverpool councillor for housing.
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North-east RSLs demand single body to share out regeneration funds
Housing associations in the North-east are calling for a single body to direct regeneration cash and lift the region’s housing prospects.
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Councils forced to transfer stock as rent restructuring bites
Housing Today survey finds many see transfer as the only way to meet decent homes target
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Tories attack 'knee-jerk' council reforms
Government plans to tackle failing councils have been attacked by the Conservatives as a "knee-jerk" reaction.
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Housing associations missing out on tax break cash
Many are unaware they could win financially by building on contaminated land
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William Sutton Alliance looks for European partners
The William Sutton Housing Alliance is looking to attract a European partner in order to benefit from its experience in emerging areas such as choice-based letting.