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Dismay as Birmingham council admits it will miss deadline for stock options appraisal
Birmingham City Council has become the first to publicly admit that it will not meet the July 2005 deadline for deciding how it will bring its 70,000 homes up to the decent homes standard
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Archive TitlesScottish landlords call for action after homelessness doubles in Highlands
The Scottish Executive is facing calls to make homelessness a higher priority after it emerged that the number of homeless households in the Highlands has doubled in the past two years
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Its not about the money
Let me enlighten the ODPM about RSLs: we aim to serve the community, not hoard piles of cash
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Troubled Shaftesbury to sell 2500 homes, but rejects merger
Landlord to restructure into three regions and sell properties outside its borders
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DD243 should not allow these detectors
I read with disbelief the item in the latest BT redcare newsletter on DD243 revisions that states that units with two motion detectors in the same housing (TMD units) are to be allowed to provide sequential confirmed signals unless future false alarm rates become unacceptable. My main concern is ...
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Archive TitlesThe bench test 2: The dark side of CCTV
The EVS VNP-542 ultra-low light monochrome camera is tough and sensitive
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Supporting People funding set to be cut by £13m in Wales next year
The Welsh Assembly is poised to slash £13m of funding for supported housing next year in a move that could force schemes to close, writes Chloe Stothart.
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Archive TitlesThe bench test 1: The wireless home
The Visonic Powermax Plus offers a range of home automation options along with its security functions
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Liverpool council’s last 16,000 homes must be transferred
Local authority to bid for £85m from ODPM to help fund negative equity transfer
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Think tank
If you have a housing problem, or a better answer, write to Think tank Housing Today, 7th floor, Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UY, Email: HTletters@cmpinformation.com
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Archive TitlesSilent witness
Councils and housing associations are turning to professional witnesses to gather the evidence needed to secure antisocial behaviour orders. Kate Freeman spent a night with a specialist undercover surveillance team on the streets of Liverpool – and behind the net curtains
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In with a shout?
An estimated 100 people demonstrated outside Downing Street on 3 November against a refusal by government to support Diego Garcians – who are British citizens – on their arrival in the UK.
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Village people
This is part of architect EDAW/HOK’s vision for the Olympic village and regeneration of the Lower Lea Valley in east London.
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On the money
There’s a lot to be said for SPVs – if you go about them in the right way
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Archive TitlesWest midlands tunnel vision
Housing organisations in the West Midlands have followed narrow agendas instead of pulling together, stunting development in the process. Now they’re starting to work as a team – which is vital because divided they will stall, says Vikki Miller
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People make a neighbourhood
Richard Kemp is half right (“We need a new breed of RSLs”, HT 5 November) but he falls into the trap of thinking about what makes a strong neighbourhood principally in terms of housing and facilities, rather than the people who live there
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Lee rated poor with poor prospects
A north London landlord has been given the worst possible score in an Audit Commission inspection.
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Unfair to sheltered housing
Niall Dickson’s article (“Mediocre and uninspired”, HT 22 October) is somewhat confusing in that the front page-headline says that Dickson is slamming sheltered housing, but it reads as though he is actually attacking the care regime institutions or system. Which is it to be?
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Gypsies and Travellers will stay on illegal sites, Hill warned
Lib Dem peer concerned after housing minister rejects committee’s call for statutory duty