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Archive TitlesHull: ‘we don’t need extra cash for decent homes’
LGA and Lib Dems unconvinced by troubled council’s claim it can find £224m without transfer
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Shelter wants social housing cash trebled
The government must create a dedicated department for housing that would treble spending on social housing, said a report published this week by housing charity Shelter.The report, Generation Squalor, is the result of a national investigation by the charity into the housing crisis facing Britain’s children. It argues that spending ...
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Liverpool councillor calls for repairs cash to be ringfenced
One million pounds retained by Liverpool council after it sacked its housing repairs management firm should be ploughed back into the city’s social housing, the council’s opposition leader has urged
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ODPM moves to make right to buy compliant with Islamic law
Consultation proposes allowing ownership of homes by third parties
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Highlands tenants could lose right to buy
About 5000 tenants of a Scottish council COULD have their right to buy suspended under proposals to designate parts of the Highlands as “pressured areas”.New tenants in a number of areas including Inverness, Skye and Lochalsh will have their right to buy put on hold for a period of up ...
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Branching out
An exhibition of textiles was launched on Tuesday at a gallery in the Linthouse Urban Village, a regeneration scheme in the Govan area of Glasgow. Alexandra Ritchie’s spring collection will be on show at the LUV Gallery until 13 April and includes photography, digital print and embroidery techniques. It is ...
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You must make sure that your BME statistics really count
The housing corporation has just launched its draft black and minority-ethnic action plan for 2005/8, for which consultation lasts until 3 May.
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BME disabled people suffer housing bias
Disabled people from black and minority-ethnic groups are far more likely to live in substandard housing than their white counterparts, said a report published on Tuesday.
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Archive TitlesBrains behind elite partners at the corporation quits his job
Neil Hadden’s sudden departure is ‘not due to rift’ but so he can join Aldwyck
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Archive TitlesBeautifully restored
Leicester council’s effective ‘worst first’ repairs service has proved popular with tenants
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Knocking down the right-to-buy barrier
The right to buy has proved a headache for landlords who want to demolish homes. New rules give some power back to the RSLs but don’t clear up all the confusion
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We need checks and balances
I am shocked at the arrogance of Kevin Day when he claims that the requirment of courts in the South-east for applicants to serve skeleton arguments is “no doubt designed to intimidate lay representatives” (4 March, page 22).
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Archive TitlesThe government is behaving badly
As someone who has worked in antisocial behaviour for a number of years I have to agree with Tony Soares’ comments (11 March, page 27).
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Archive TitlesFewer Scottish associations should build homes, says new NHF chief
The future chief executive of the National Housing Federation has called for a reduction in the number of Scottish housing associations receiving development funding
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ASBOs do work
I refer to your piece “Only half of ASBOs stop antisocial behaviour”, 4 March 2005, page 10), which asserted that antisocial behaviour orders do not work because 42% had been breached.
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Archive TitlesHow I got that ASBO
The case: 10-year-old Ryan Wilkinson became the youngest ever recipient of an antisocial behaviour order on 7 February. Leeds council spent £4777 and took 19 months to secure it. Enforcement officer TA Langan tells the story
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Think tank to investigate how to make growth areas thrive
Work has started on an £8m scheme to build 96 affordable homes for Mercian Housing Association in Digbeth, Birmingham.
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Housing associations to get annual BME league table
Housing associations’ performance on equal rights for black and minority-ethnic communities is to be judged in a new annual league table.