All Archive Titles articles – Page 659
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Archive TitlesAn open secret
Valentine’s day is a good time to come clean about your office romance, says Roxane McMeeken
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On the move
Gary OrrGary Orr has been hired as director of housing for Broadland Housing Association. He was previously area housing director for Raglan Housing Association.Margaret WhiteMargaret White is now Sunderland Housing Group’s head of care and support services. She used to work at Houghton & Hetton Housing Company. Russell PaceyRussell Pacey, ...
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Northern tenancy turnover outstrips London
Tenancy turnover rates for housing associations were three times higher in the North of England than in London last year, according to a report published last week by the Housing Quality Network.Associations in the North relet about 9.8% of their stock during 2003/4, compared to 3% in London.However, overall tenancy ...
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Archive TitlesLife outside
In 2002, the Homelessness Act was updated to better provide for those who have spent time inside. But three years on, the system is still failing them.
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Kaboom!
Liverpool residents and photographers have documented the history of the city’s tower blocks in a new exhibition, Living it Up. Liverpool Housing Action put the exhibition together after speaking with more than 5337 residents in 67 tower blocks across the city. The exhibition runs at the Museum of Liverpool Life ...
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Archive TitlesIncredible journey
Ann-Marie Hersh, who consults on change management with RSLs, wanted a new challenge. She found it teaching leadership skills in Sudan – a deeply moving experience as these extracts from her diary show …
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Horns of plenty
Derbyshire-based Amber Valley Housing is offering £29,000 in grants to local community groups. Last year the Amber Valley Community Chest gave £2000 to help buy instruments for the youth training section of Crich Brass Band, pictured. Band members include Scott Lester, 9, Emily Soghomonian, 8, Joanne Lamb, Robert Murrant, 11, ...
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Hope for the future
Amicus Group tenants and local residents in Halton, Hastings, have been celebrating the completion of a £3.5m regeneration programme. A range of improvements have been carried out to homes, including improved security and landscaped gardens. The project marks the first major regeneration of the area since the 1960s. The area ...
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Archive TitlesSo how have you fared?
Those at the top have enjoyed the biggest increases this year, according to the 2004/5 Incubon survey of housing association salaries. Junior and middle managers will be glummer. But with recruitment pressures growing at the junior and senior ends of the market, employers are now offering better benefits. Number crunching ...
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Group dynamics
Do you feel you spend most of your time on things that aren’t really important to you? Many things that are vital to your place within an organisation don't present themselves as the most urgent ones to do, so they often get left behind in the scramble to meet deadlines ...
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New setback for stranded Diego Garcians
A group of 33 British people from the island of Diego Garcia face being left homeless after a South-eastern council said it had “no duty” to house them.
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New Forest cuts costs to hit decency target
New Forest Council will cut its repairs budgets in order to help raise the £47m it needs to meet the decent homes standard by 2010.
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Choice is sweet and everything else is just humbug
Choice is the watchword for the forthcoming election and John Prescott has announced that choice-based lettings is to become a national programme – and not a moment too soon. Those pilots have been in the air for too long.
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Poor funding practices force charity cutbacks
About one-third of UK charities have been forced to cancel or close down services because of “poor” government funding practices, according to a survey from the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations.
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Senior managers cash in as junior staff lose out
Fears of recruitment and retention nightmare as pay chasm opens between ranks
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Right-to-buy campaigners plan to punish Labour at polls
Tenants’ groups opposed to reforms to use tactical voting in marginal seats
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You’ll need a better excuse than that
Late payment of benefit by a council is no defence for tenants who are eight weeks in arrears. But that doesn’t let associations off the hook either
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Youll need a better excuse than that
Late payment of benefit by a council is no defence for tenants who are eight weeks in arrears. But that doesn’t let associations off the hook either
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Havent we been here before?
After World War II politicians vied with each other to produce 200,000 … 300,000 … or 400,000 new homes in the following year (interview with deputy prime minister John Prescott, 28 January, page 20).