All Archive Titles articles – Page 623
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Archive TitlesMeasure for measure
Social landlords are in a bind. The government wants more efficiency from them, but it’s shedding precious little light on how they are supposed to measure it. Ben Cook gets the tape out.
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Letter of the week
You report that prefabs could be imported from China in order to meet deputy prime minister John Prescott’s £60,000 target (1 April, page 10).
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North Staffordshire to mentor troubled Hull pathfinder
Renew asked to oversee Hull’s work after damning Audit Commission report
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Archive TitlesHat’s the way to do it
Turning a sink estate around isn’t easy, but if anyone knows how to do it, it’s the housing action trusts. Now, as they wind down, what lessons do they have to offer?
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Scarboroughs rough sleepers to be given ticket out of town
Homeless people will be offered a ticket out of town under proposals to reduce rough sleeping in Scarborough
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PFI: Pricey, Fractious, Inefficient
With its social housing efficiency technical note last month, the ODPM has once again stressed that the sector should be making efficiency savings of £835m a year by 2007/8.
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In a fix
This month, the National Federation of ALMOs holds its annual conference. As reps from the 49 ALMOs gather in York, one of the most keenly debated topics will be how to avoid outliving their usefulness
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We just want a fair settlement
We believe in fair play. We live in a modern Britain. We are proud to be part of a diverse and multicultural nation. We are proud to be Gypsies and Travellers.
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Archive TitlesMusic for your ears
Yvonne Hutchinson in her article “Black history should mean more than slavery” (1 April, page 18) regrets that no one has heard of the black musical phenomenon, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
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Gloves come off in RSLs’ elite partner struggle
Associations facing widespread gazumping pay vastly over the odds for South-east sites
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A message to the Southern elite –come up or shut up
Over the past few weeks Liverpool has been in the headlines on the housing front. From all over the South, well-meaning but ill-informed “experts” have been commenting on what we are trying to do in Liverpool without coming up to see for themselves.
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Archive TitlesNever mind the ballots
Getting re-elected is an exhausting business – but Labour party chairman Ian McCartney isn’t letting that distract him from setting out what’s planned for a historic third term. e spoke to Stuart Macdonald. Photographs Dominik Gigler
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Two reports slate South-east assembly’s housebuilding plans
Think tank and regional development agency demand greater focus on affordable homes
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MPs change their tune on use of demolitions to renew low-demand areas
The committee THat kick-started the government’s £500m effort to tackle low-demand housing by recommending “radical intervention” in 2002 has voiced concern there could be a “risk” of the initiative being perceived as a major demolition programme
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A grey area
Our ageing population is a vast and far-reaching issue – so why isn’t it a hot election topic
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Archive TitlesConservatives revive proposal to dock benefit from antisocial families...
The Conservative party has revived proposals to allow local authorities to dock housing benefit from families guilty of antisocial behaviour
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Scottish housing associations’ turnover jumps 60% to £780m
Stock transfers mean RSLs now own about one in four social homes in Scotland
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Social Homebuy to cost corporation £30m a year
Cost of government’s plan to boost homeownership revealed as consultation is published