All Archive Titles articles – Page 952
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Huff, puff: how Hurricane Isabel will blow your holiday home down
I've just come back from Cape Cod in the US of A where, briefly, I had to tether myself to a front door to withstand the final winds of Hurricane Isabel.
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Archive TitlesBirmingham on the brink
Furious tenants, repeated drubbings from the Audit Commission, a management vacuum and a repairs service in crisis … there's something rotten in Birmingham's housing department.
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Archive TitlesBeat It
Winnie Williams from African culture group Children's Sifra gives a class in African drumming at an open day run by Octavia Housing and Care. The day was held in the Harrow Club community centre in west London last Saturday.The day also included a DJing competition, an exhibition of art by ...
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Court battle to evict Prescott from union-owned flat drags on
The court battle to decide whether deputy prime minister John Prescott can stay in his trade union-owned flat could rumble on into next year.
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Archive TitlesPlaces for People backs down on board cull
Turmoil ahead as chair Sebert Cox agrees to step down and two board members voted off
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Archive TitlesI'll be back to finish the job, says Birmingham housing chief
Birmingham's absentee housing director has said he intends to return to the job despite last week's damning assessment of the council's repairs and maintenance service by the Audit Commission
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Lords back down on pooling of capital receipts
The Local Government Bill was finally passed last week after the House of Lords reversed an earlier vote to amend one of its key proposals.
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Archive TitlesNovas-Ouvertures to bid for Home Office asylum-seeker housing contracts
A second consortium of housing associations could take on Home Office contracts to house asylum seekers from 2005
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Archive TitlesHousing associations could be given star ratings, hints Irwin
The Audit Commission has given its broadest hint yet that it is to introduce star ratings for housing associations as well as councils
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Lead associations named for Merseyside renewal
Five housing associations have agreed to lead market renewal work in Liverpool in an attempt to pull 123,000 homes out of low demand.
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Association funding shortfall could thwart urban renaissance, says research
Housing associations' ability to meet government development targets could be thwarted by their inability to raise enough funds
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Federation hunts for new digs after huge windfall
The National Housing Federation is putting the finishing touches to a £14m plan to move to new London offices.
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Archive TitlesThe gospel according to Jim
The NHF's chief is staking his reputation on rebranding the organisation. In the week its new identity is launched, we ask him if it will work.
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£600m third-round PFI gets under way
The government was to blow the starting whistle for the long-awaited £600m third round of the housing private finance initiative on Thursday.
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Salford withdraws bid for £53m of ALMO funding
Salford council abandoned its £53m bid for round two arm's-length management funding after housing minister Keith Hill told the struggling organisation it was unlikely to get the money.
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£233k 'golden goodbye' sparks concern over executive pay
Housing Corporation launches probe into payoff for departing Downland boss
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Southern minnow scoops low-security £10m loan
A Southern registered social landlord has borrowed £10m to expand its homeownership arm.
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Think tank
TUPE or not TUPE? I work for a medium-sized council working towards a ballot of our tenants for stock transfer. We are working up a TUPE list of staff and have a dilemma. There is an organisation that manufactures PVCu window frames that is linked to the council and supported ...
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Archive TitlesSound sense
Still a mainstay of the intruder alarm system, the sounder comes in many shapes ...