All Archive Titles articles – Page 893
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Archive TitlesThe REIT stuff
Real estate investment trusts could bring millions of pounds into social housing like this development, but would also introduce new financial risks. As the government promises to consult on introducing the system, Chloe Stothart asks: are REITs right for social housing?
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Reclaim the streets
Reclaim the streets: Three housing associations and a council have joined forces to clear Birmingham’s streets of rubbish. Midland Area, Focus and Family associations are working with Birmingham council on the £120,000 scheme.Coordinator Sangeeta Redgrave, pictured, said: “The campaign will benefit the whole of north-west Birmingham.”
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Public & private
RSLs are bucking the national trend on pensions, says Paul McGlone, but for how much longer?
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Putting theory into practice
The first in a monthly series from online support network Race Action Net looks at how landlords are using its toolkit to prevent and tackle racial harassment
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Archive TitlesLight side of the street
Light side of the street: The housing estate featured in Alan Parker's film The Commitments has undergone an £8.5m rebuild. The36 tower blocks on the Ballymun estate in Dublin have been demolished and replaced with 95 new homes – low-rise apartment blocks and single-storey houses. A new swimming pool and ...
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Too little, much too late
The ombudsman penalised a council for its treatment of a disabled homeless applicant. It took too long investigating his case and left him in unsuitable housing for 17 months
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Hill promises to review overcrowding standard
Housing minister Keith Hill has taken a significant step towards modernising how overcrowding is measured.
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Archive TitlesFamily entertainers
Family entertainers: Drumming group Ace Percussions entertains guests at the launch of Family Housing Group's customer panel. The panel, set up to get tenants more involved in the organisation's decisions, was launched at the Commonwealth Institute in west London last Friday. More than 500 tenants have joined the panel, which ...
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Housing Corporation now faces second inquiry
The Housing Corporation is to undergo a second inquiry into its workings, after MPs announced they are to launch their own investigation into the quango.
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Social landlords press for extension to refugee contracts
Councils and registered social landlords are urging the Home Office to amend its contracts for housing refugees so they may remain in their homes longer.
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How To … engage with faith communities
The first in a series on understanding religious differences, by Jennifer Ballinger
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Archive TitlesThe codemaker
This man thinks we'd get much better communities if we built them according to a predetermined set of design criteria. The ODPM agrees with him; architects think he's nuts. Joey Gardiner asked Paul Murrain to explain himself. Peter Guenzel took his picture
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Archive TitlesLondon councils may use new class of home for homeless
Two London councils are in talks with a developer to use a new class of home to house the homeless.
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Housing Corporation is 'victimising' Solon Wandsworth, insider claims
Solon Wandsworth is being victimised by the Housing Corporation because of its unorthodox management style, according to a member of staff at the association.
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Archive TitlesDifficult choices must be made
Re: "Cruel to be kind?", I cannot afford to buy my own house and I am sick and tired of my taxes paying for people who have no intention of changing (HT 16 January, page 28).It's about time people were made to be responsible and pay the consequences for their ...
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Cash for quality
For many people, there's something unpalatable about public sector bosses enjoying salaries close to those of their private sector counterparts. It has become a highly sensitive issue for the government that, as it pours billions into improving schools and hospitals and building homes, the public believes much of the money ...
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Grant to private firms must be handled with care
This is the first in a series of contributions to Housing Today so I want to open up some issues for discussion – offer a few ideas, fly the occasional kite and look at the problems and the opportunities that the housing sector faces.
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Archive TitlesThis private developer used public money to build these homes
… and if the Housing Bill goes through in its current form, many others could do the same. Stuart Macdonald reports on the developers trying to take away your grant.
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Wales warned: 'build more or risk a housing crisis'
The Welsh Assembly musT demand the construction of more homes to prevent the Welsh housing shortage becoming more acute than the one in England, the House Builders Federation has warned.