All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 706
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On the money
Lesley Lodge looks at some of the help available for councils trying to hit efficiency targets
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It's you who are ignoring us
Your article on refugees (“Why are you ignoring us?”, 22 October) ignored the work of all refugee- and community-based housing associations that are providing direct housing to refugee groups. Many are working on a self-help ethos providing housing by developing their own housing stock, managing housing for other registered social ...
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Heres an idea
Interactive theatre can make for residents’ groups challenge their prejudices
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Green group raps South Midlands growth plan
Environmental group Friends of the Earth has slammed the government’s strategy for the Milton Keynes South Midlands growth corridor.
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Green taxes might hurt the poor, says JRF
Green taxes would need to be carefully designed so as not to hit poor tenants hardest, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has argued in a new report.
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Archive TitlesA ghost in the house
It’s not every day a housing officer is asked to investigate tales of the unexpected. But just in case your tenants complain of bumps in the night this Halloween, Katie Puckett looks at how social landlords have found themselves playing paranormal detective.
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You wont get a rise out of them
The Housing Corporation says the pay dispute over Supporting People funding at English Churches Housing Group is a matter for ECHG and its staff. That’s not strictly true any more. The Supporting People funding regime has effectively tied employers’ hands.Staff are the largest cost in supported housing so the government’s ...
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Get to know your tenants’ rights
Arm yourself with a good working knowledge of the complex laws on the rights to buy and acquire, and you could hold on to homes that you’d otherwise have lost
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Archive TitlesSocial housing pioneer Freeman
Brian Freeman, one of the pioneers of the housing association movement, has died at the age of 79.
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How to hit flyposters where it hurts
Vikki Miller finds out how to target music industry executives with ‘white-collar ASBOs’
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Archive TitlesThe ideas factory
Tony Wilson is the last person you’d expect to be involved in regenerating run-down east Lancashire. Eleanor Snow asked the former TV presenter and music mogul what plans he has up his sleeve
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Dressing down
Regarding your feature on “What not to wear at job interviews” (15 October, page 22), I was rather surprised to see a senior manager in a (presumably equal opportunities) housing association make comments such as “I would think this candidate was a bit disorganised”, and, “It looks like he’s ...
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Archive TitlesIts a dirty job, but im training to do it
Alison Coles tells Eleanor Snow why she’s training for a job in the testosterone-charged world of the construction site
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Disabled to get first dibs on some homes
Campaigners have won a partial victory in the fight to make councils reserve specially adapted homes for disabled people, rather than giving them to people higher up on waiting lists.
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Hardly a decent outcome
Your article “Peabody left to struggle alone” (15 October, page 11) reported that the trust is selling homes as part of its asset management strategy.Peabody has been talking to the ODPM and the Housing Corporation about its asset management strategy since the late 1990s. I’ve been at Peabody for ...
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Sheltering ourselves from harsh realities is dangerous
My capacity for brutal reality is as limited as the next person’s. Confronted with suffering, grief and misery, I want to believe that this must be the exception rather than the rule, that in some way other people’s ability to cope must be greater than mine – their pain thresholds ...
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Cut to the point
There was an important point missed in your article on English Churches Housing Group last week (22 October, page 11). You said ECHG could not afford to give staff a pay increase in line with inflation because of cuts in the Supporting People programme.A pay increase was due earlier this ...
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Places for People tops RSL ranking despite Corporation snub
Places for People has retained its crown as England’s largest housing association despite failing to make the Housing Corporation’s list of preferred development partners.
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Sector slams Conservatives completely deficient housing plans
Conservative plans to expand homeownership have been slated by the sector for failing to address the “critical” housing shortage.