All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 664
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Archive TitlesThe Twilight zone
Twilight Bey’s early experience of antisocial behaviour was as a peacemaker between two gun-toting gangs in Los Angeles. So he didn’t blink when a housing trust in Kensington & Chelsea wanted someone to sort out a few difficulties of their own. Saba Salman reports in the first of a series ...
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Show-off time
The Chartered Institute of Housing is working on a new good practice guide on housing and related services for asylum seekers and refugees.
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Archive TitlesDo as I say, please
Asserting your authority after a promotion can be a tricky business
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Sheffield picks stock transfer
Sanctuary Housing Association has been selected as the prospective landlord for Sheffield’s first stock transfer tenants.
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Retiring nature
A bank and two developers have put together a £60m fund to build 20 retirement villages in the next 10 years for the over 55s.
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Archive TitlesOn the move
Rohan MorganThe Orbit Group has appointed Rohan Morgan as its assistant business development director. He joins Orbit from Bromford Housing Group, where he worked as a senior development manager. Mark LloydMark LLoyd is the new director for services at Kent Community Housing Trust. He was the director for Ashley ...
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On the money
Gearing up for Gershon? Then you’ll need to know how to measure efficiency
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Archive TitlesPick ‘n’ mix
Having politicians decide who lives where has been out of favour ever since the Tory ‘homes for votes’ scandal. So why is Labour now so keen to promote socially engineered communities?
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Archive TitlesI want to be like you
Next week, chief executives at the NHF conference will be asked to compare their leadership qualities with Shakespeare’s Henry V. But which idols do they really aspire to be like?
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Let’s do for others what the Victorians did for us
We are having a new kitchen put into our home.
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Transfer: wheres the honesty?
In his article on prudential borrowing (14 January, page 15), Adrian Carter suggests there is a major problem with the system: “The implications for the revenue account in paying off new debt for major investment would be that many local authorities would have to substantially increase rents.
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Archive TitlesSocial homebuys a sell-out...
Let’s hope that before opting to buy their homes under the government’s “social homebuy” policy (14 January, page 7), tenants realise the implications: 25% of sale proceeds back to the landlord and freehold retained with service charges!
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The Tories have got it wrong
The ODPM and Audit Commission sevices are of direct benefit to the general public.
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Not good on paper
We need a system that’s about supporting people – not supporting bureaucracy
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...but good in the long term
I believe it is a wise move by the ODPM to recognise that the interest of social tenants is best served by providing them with the opportunity to own their homes.
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Are you really prepared to go public?
We all know RSLs are public bodies for the purpose of the EU procurement directive, but the question is how this will affect them when it comes to letting service contracts
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Net gain
The captain of Great Britain's Paralympic basketball team has become an ambassador for John Grooms Housing Association.
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Interest in grant-to-developers pilot reaches fever pitch
The Housing Corporation has been inundated with more than 200 responses expressing an interest in the government’s £200m pilot scheme of paying housing grant to developers, it said this week.
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Power to the people? well, not exactly
Council and social housing tenants are often wooed with promises of greater empowerment, but just how far are these legally enforceable?