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Archive TitlesHull faces Whitehall takeover
Prescott's council set for first housing intervention after damning inspectorate report
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Extreme lessons
This week has seen two extremes of council housing on show. Flying the flag for excellence in management is Derby.
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London mayor's empty homes target fails to tackle problem
London mayor Ken Livingstone's plan to bring 2,600 of the capital's worst empty homes back into use by this time next year does not go far enough.
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Archive TitlesKey to the door
KEY TO THE DOOR: By helping to house Michelle Fisher (pictured), a nurse at Cirencester Hospital, Cotswold council has become the first local authority to house a key worker under the Starter Homes Initiative. The council granted Fisher a £21,000 interest-free loan, repayable to the town hall once the property ...
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Derby wins top rating
Derby council has become the first local authority to achieve two three-star ratings from the Audit Commission’s housing inspectorate.
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Archive TitlesWhere tories dare
WHERE TORIES DARE: Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith toured Hackney Community College in east London this week in a bid to rebrand his party as champion for the poor and disadvantaged. He called for all children in the UK to have the same educational opportunities regardless of their parents’ earnings. ...
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Archive TitlesWild in the country
WILD IN THE COUNTRY: More than 1,000 residents in the Worcestershire parish of Throckmorton demonstrate against a planned asylum centre at a local RAF airbase. The government plans to build up to 15 accommodation centres across Britain to speed up the asylum process, which it says receives up to 1,500 ...
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A total fuss over cost indicators
"The sector would be better off without a national grant rate calculator. Discuss."
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Archive TitlesReality check
And now an update on a well-loved tale currently doing the rounds. A visiting Spanish housing expert is studying the Corporation's online bidding system. She says a problem sometimes encountered at home is an attitude of "mañana" – what would that be called here? "That's a difficult one," says the ...
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Archive TitlesCaring community
CARING COMMUNITY: Scottish Executive social justice minister Margaret Curran (right) meets tenant Lorraine Brown at the opening of a £2.3m supported housing facility at High Mair in west Scotland. A partnership between the Thistle Foundation, Margaret Blackwood and Horizon housing associations, the project offers a mix of 43 mainstream and ...
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Constructive thinking for career prospects
I have just been reading the Strategic Forum for Construction's consultation paper Accelerating change. This is Sir John Egan's follow-up to his 1998 Rethinking construction report, which set out drivers and priorities for change in the construction industry.
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Grant calculator leaves RSLs short
Housing associations are being forced to pour more and more of their own cash into new housing because of problems with the Housing Corporation's grant rate calculator.That was the shock finding of a National Housing Federation report published this week. Dwindling levels of subsidy could lead to RSL development becoming ...
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Britain cops UN criticism
Britain’s housing record has been criticised in a report by the United Nations committee on economic, social and cultural rights.
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Brand guru Olins says sector wastes fortune on promotion
Housing associations are wasting large sums of money on uncoordinated promotion work, branding guru Wally Olins has said.
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Shelter boss Holmes quits
Shelter director Chris Holmes is to quit at the end of this month after seven years in office.
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Bill set to drive up costs
Lenders may flee the social housing market because of new government legislation, leaving housing associations with increased borrowing costs and less choice of finance.
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Ulster bill misses opportunity for reform, say lenders
Northern Ireland's Department of Social Development has missed the opportunity to write a new housing strategy for the province in its draft housing bill, the Council of Mortgage Lenders has said.
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Service award for Manion
Irwell Valley Housing Association chief executive Tom Manion has been named public servant of the year for housing.
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All sides attack rural asylum plans
Controversial government plans to build accommodation centres for asylum seekers in rural areas will exacerbate already severe housing shortages, it was claimed this week.
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Leadership must come from all sides
We in Belgrave Baheno Women's Organisation had a vision in our minds that we were not prepared to let go of. That is the first rule of community-led regeneration.