All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1128
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Transfer notes
Colleagues in the public sector team here have forbidden me from using the phrase “bricks and mortar”; but it seems to me that if the esteemed Jeff Zitron can put his name to an important recent report Beyond Bricks and Mortar then I too can use the phrase to draw ...
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Archive TitlesStreet life
Street life: The fifth Urban Design Week was launched this week with a specially commissioned photographic exhibition exploring the theme of “street life” in London. The Urban Design Alliance commissioned young photographers Tim Chave and Barry Edmunds for the launch. Events across the UK will highlight the importance of urban ...
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Three stars for Leicester repair team
Leicester council this week became the first local authority in the country to gain a three-star rating from the Audit Commission’s housing inspectorate for its repairs and maintenance service. Inspectors were impressed by Leicester council’s tenant-focused service and its efficiency in targeting its resources. The council’s regular stock condition surveys ...
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Scots to pour millions into social housing
Millions of extra pounds will be spent by the Scottish Executive on social housing as part of its three-year plan to fund stock transfers and offer 18,000 new and improved homes.
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Archive TitlesOn the house
On the house: The former Oxford Pub in the St Mary's area of Southampton (pictured) has now been converted into three flats that will be managed by Hyde Housing Association. The 100-year-old hostelry is the 850th empty property to be brought back into use in the city by Southampton council.
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Here's an idea
Why not set up cooperative action teams and make tenants their own landlords?
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Terms like ‘underclass’ do not help the poor
David Blunkett has a habit of firing off broadsides that offend liberal sensibilities. In his latest outburst he supported the idea of an underclass, declaring that there was indeed a subset of society with different social norms – a distinct group who annoyed their neighbours, engaged in drugs and other ...
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Archive TitlesSafe from harm
Women fleeing domestic violence often get trapped in a cycle of repeat homelessness. Rehousing them is a start, but how do you then make sure they stay out of harm's way?
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Home-ownership schemes 'lack government support'
Low-cost home ownership schemes contribute effectively to regeneration schemes and create mixed communities, but there is a lack of support at both government and local level.
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Salford establishes minimum standards plan for private landlords
Salford council has launched an ambitious plan to sign up 400 private landlords to minimum standards in three years.
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Two, four, six, eight … why don't you participate?
Are you a member of your residents' association? Don't just talk about empowerment – do it.
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Dexia explores lending options
Leading social housing lender, Dexia, has said it is offsetting margin squeeze in stock transfer and mainstream long-term funding by focusing on other growth areas.
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Panel of experts to oversee Thames Gateway development
GLA musters sector bodies and agencies to monitor delivery of 140,000 homes
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Archive TitlesCrisis launches training project
Body Shop founder Anita Roddick got a makeover from Debra Barrett at the launch of homelessness charity Crisis’ “Changing Lives” project, which funds homeless people on vocational courses.
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Social tenants feel let down by landlords over crime
More than half social housing tenants do not think their landlord is doing enough to tackle crime.
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Corporation: Sector on course to meet decent homes target
The housing association sector is in a good position to meet the government’s decent homes target by 2010, according to Clare Millar, Housing Corporation director of regulation.
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Editor's comment
The bar won’t be the only source of cheer at the National Housing Federation Annual Conference in Birmingham.
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Coalfield programme extended to ten more communities
Ten more communities that have been hit by closures of coalmines are to receive help from English Partnerships.
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Social climbers
Frustrated by your job? Feel stuck? Not sure of the way ahead in your working life? Fear not: Housing Today’s careers special is here to help. On pages 32-33, five housing bigwigs talk about how they reached the top, and on pages 34-35 we begin a new series of day-in-the-life ...