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Archive TitlesSofa so good
When tenants in the North-east need to furnish their homes, they turn not to the Ikea catalogue but to a brochure from the Newcastle furniture service. Katie Puckett visited its warehouse
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GMB threatens strike vote over stock transfer
One of the country’s largest unions has threatened to ballot for strike action over its members’ “anger and discontent” at ODPM social housing policy.
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Rules of the new spying game
Claims of “Big Brother” are always made when new surveillance techniques come to light. The introduction of CCTV and speed cameras met with protests of yet further erosion of liberties and signs of the state’s ever-increasing power.
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MPs report flawed
It is deeply disappointing that a parliamentary inquiry that started so well, by posing basic questions about the housing situation in Northern Ireland, has finished by publishing a seriously flawed report (“Urgent action needed to prevent crisis in Northern Ireland social housing, says report”, HT 29 October)
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Socially excluded have no voice
I am a social housing tenant, living in a tiny flat that should really, by today’s standards, be considered a slum.
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Archive TitlesThe disappeared
Failed asylum seekers, who can’t leave because their home countries aren’t safe, get help only if they agree to move anywhere in the UK and to be deported at any point. To avoid this fate, hundreds are vanishing from the official radar and ending up on the streets
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ODPM delays rent restructuring
The government has put the brakes on changes to the rent restructuring regime for another year, writes Chloe Stothart.
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Grant recipients must be regulated to same degree, says survey
The government should ensure that housing associations and private developers face the same level of regulation when receiving grant from the Housing Corporation, according to Housing Today readers
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Tories want informed debate
I am writing about our policy document “Conservative Action on Housing: The Right to Own”.
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ODPM efficiency targets leave sector in dark
Guidance on how councils and RSLs must make £1.66bn savings ‘still miles away’
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Conservative populism
The Conservative housing policy fails to address issues of overcrowding and rising homelessness applications (“Michael Howard’s Vision for Social Housing”, HT 5 November).
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NHF launches executive classes
The National Housing Federation is to launch a leadership programme to help registered social landlord managers become senior executives.
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Ruling classes
Regulators must learn to live up to the same standards they expect everyone else to
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Government could face legal challenge over developers’ grant
NHF vows to consider legal action if ODPM pursues ‘discriminatory’ course of action
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Archive TitlesLondon Housing Board in talks with councils to meet demand by building outside capital
The London Housing Board has invited proposals from the capital’s 33 boroughs to spend £15m building homes outside the capital, write Stuart Macdonald and Martin Hilditch.
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GLA and Corporation urge board to write bold strategy
Members of the London Housing Board have called on their colleagues to “seize the moment to be as bold as we can” ahead of today’s publication of the capital’s draft housing strategy for 2005.
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Charity pay lags behind housing
The pay of charity chief executives has risen faster this year than that of their colleagues in housing associations but they are still paid on average £20,000 less than their RSL peers.
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Archive TitlesODPM backs Notting Hill plans for housing ‘MOTs’ and no claim bonuses
The ODPM has backed plans for a home “MOT” whereby tenants undergo annual inspections by housing officers, writes Ben Cook.The scheme, devised by Notting Hill Housing Trust, would also offer tenants incentives to carry out minor repairs themselves.Under the programme, tenants who go a year without calling their landlord to ...
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Forsaking failed asylum seekers really is the last straw
The last issue of this magazine exposed how support is being withdrawn from failed asylum seekers who are not immediately deported because it is not safe for them to return to their country of origin
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Associations refugee role
It was good to see Housing Today (22 October, page 23) highlighting the issue of refugee housing and particularly the need for supporting their move on into permanent accommodation.