The prospect of a merger between the Housing Corporation and regeneration quango English Partnerships has been raised again.
A report on the future of UK housing, one of seven commissioned by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and the Royal Institute of British Architects, recommended that the merger become part of the regional agenda in the UK.

The paper, by Duncan Maclennan, Glasgow University's chair of land economics and finance, said the merged bodies should devolve into a series of regional housing partnerships that would report to regional assemblies.

Future Involvements: Governing Housing also predicted that rising salaries and growing households would continue to put huge pressure on the housing market well into the future. More and more provision

will shift to the private sector, it said.

n Another paper told the government to do more to meet the environmental challenges set to affect housing. Roger Levett, environmental consultant and author of Housing in a Changed Climate, said the climate would radically change the way housing was approached. "The urban renaissance will finally have to happen because we'll get such a fright from climate change everyone will have to live nearer to their work," he said.

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Housing Today