All Archive Titles articles – Page 676
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Group dynamics
Last year, a poll of public opinion in the US found that 50% of people weren’t happy with what they’ve done at the end of the week.
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Cost-cutting – there are limits
Housing officers are asked to do many things in the course of their work but few of them will have reckoned on donning the solicitors’ robes and standing up in front of a judge to secure an ASBO
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Parents must be in control of little ones
More than one organisation in your group? Make sure the parent company is fully in control of subsidiaries or you could fall foul of the corporation’s new good practice note
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TPAS tells pathfinders to consult more
The Tenant Participation Advisory Service has criticised the government’s housing market renewal pathfinders for not properly consulting tenants over demolition plans.
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Archive TitlesPrescott concedes: We need a new form of governance
Government to provide residents with greater say in neighbourhood management
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Sector slates two new operating cost indices as ‘useless’ and likely to cause ‘enormous harm’
New Operating Cost Indices for housing associations, published this week, have been criticised as being “useless”, with winners and losers both questioning the focus of the new system
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Archive TitlesLancashire council uses cartoon strip to draw local ethnic groups together
A Lancashire council has recruited a Private Eye cartoonist to help heal racial tensions in the area
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Housing group buys out contractor to save on costs and tax
Cornwall-based Ocean Housing Group has bought out one of its principal contractors in an attempt to save costs and tax.
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Housing minister visits Braunstone estate
Housing minister Keith Hill paid a visit to the £10.5m regeneration of Leicester's north Braunstone estate on Monday.
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‘Opportunity boroughs’ created to boost London homes target
£70m pot will help boroughs fund infrastructure needed to build 30,000 homes a year
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Archive TitlesTynedale: local attraction
The Northumbrian beauty spot where affordable housing and long-time residents come first
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Tories attack on quangos leaves sector cold
The Conservative party’s pledge to axe 168 quangos should it win the forthcoming election has been met with derision from the housing sector.
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Association shortlist gives troubled Elephant & Castle a lift
A £1bn scheme to regenerate Elephant & Castle could finally get off the ground after six housing associations were shortlisted for the first phase of the project.
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Archive TitlesHousing staff may train to replace ASBO solicitors
Councils could save ‘millions’ in legal fees by using in-house staff to prepare cases
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Architects prepare to experience life on Newcastle housing estate
A group of architects is set to move into a flat on a Newcastle housing estate in an attempt to better tailor their plans to local needs
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Social animal
Rough justiceA Carlisle man who rescued fellow residents during the recent floods that battered the city is set to be rewarded … with a spell behind bars.The good Samaritan spent two days ferrying people to safety in his dinghy, but he could face a jail term for helping a local ...
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Metropolitan sets up affordable home mortgage for Muslims
Metropolitan HoUSING TRUST has set up the UK’s first mortgage for its Muslim tenants who want to buy a property through the Homebuy scheme.
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Behind the job ad
Keith Jones, manager of Peterborough Citizens Advice Bureau, tells Kate Freeman what they really want
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Supported housing providers ponder court action
Local authorities may be taken to court in challenge to ‘unfair’ contract decisions
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£99m plan allows Leicester to hit 2010 target and keep homes
Council is largest able to meet decent homes standard without transferring stock