All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 795
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… it’s OK, we don’t want to
The story in last week’s issue may have given the impression that the forthcoming CIH report on the future of BME associations will call for a new organisation to replace the Federation of Black Housing Organisations. The report starts from the proposition that most BME associations are doing well and ...
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Cox makes early exit from Places for People
The chairman of the Places for People Group has stepped down four months sooner than expected.
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Ramblers could cost Manchester council millions
Manchester council could be charged millions of pounds in penalty fines if it loses a planning inquiry on a pioneering regeneration scheme.
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Archive TitlesConservatives slam planning gain tax and reveal their shared-equity plan
The Conservatives have criticised a proposal for a planning tax that would see landlords charged when they get planning permission for land.
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Archive TitlesComing up from the street
Thanks to rappers such as Mike Skinner and Dizzee Rascal, it's hip to come from a housing estate. Elaine Knutt asks: is the bad image acquired in the 1970s and 1980s about to change for the better?
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The CIH cannot represent us …
The Chartered Institute of Housing cannot and will not represent the needs of black and minority-ethnic people (21 May, page 13). The specialist group assembled by the CIH to front its report was not representative of BME organisations so the report itself is an effort to influence government policy while ...
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Cohesion can include choice
I notice that the select committee looking at social cohesion has suggested that choice-based lettings make the promotion of social cohesion more difficult. We all sympathise with this position, but isn't this view a bit paternalistic and patronising? The whole point of the choice agenda is that people can choose ...
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Climate change may ruin South-east coastal projects, says SEERA
Coastal developments in the South-east could be abandoned because of climate change, the South-east England Regional Assembly has warned.
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Housing boards to be 'junior' in regional merger
Regional housing boards will be subsumed into regional planning boards under plans to merge the two bodies now being worked up by the ODPM.
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Where was Peabody’s board?
The Peabody Trust focused on “cutting-edge designs that do not meet the housing need of tenants” at the expense of “modernising the greater proportion of traditional tenement blocks”. What a damning judgment from the Audit Commission (14 May, page 9).As tenant board members of an association where tenants have the ...
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Archive TitlesThe future of BME
On 1 June, the CIH publishes a major report on black and minority-ethnic associations. Already controversial, it will feed into the Housing Corporation's policy review later this year. Authors Mark Lupton and John Perry kick off the debate with 10 questions on the role and future of BME specialists.
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Birmingham Tories pledge to build council homes
Land would be sold to developers on condition they build homes for the local authority
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Never mind direct benefits, here's the real problem
william Beveridge, the ARCHITECT of the post-war welfare state, decided not to introduce a housing allowance system until house price variations settled down a bit.
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Housing benefit: a recipe for trouble
Three years after a tenant applied for housing benefit, his council had still not determined the claim. Investigations uncovered all the ingredients of maladministration
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Archive TitlesModel behaviour
Model behaviour: Teenagers (clockwise from top left) Frankie Francis, Wayne Barratt, Clare Danger and Roisin O’Cainte joined local rapper SS from Last Donz Crew (bottom) at a charity fashion show for St Basil’s Centre in Birmingham last Wednesday. St Basil’s provides accommodation and support for young homeless people.
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Home sets up private developer to bankroll social housebuilding
Move will also save Home Group £1m a year and cut dependence on government grants
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Bad education
Re: the headline that accompanied the picture of A-level pupils visiting a building site as part of their business studies course (“Chicks with bricks”, 14 May, page 13).We are all aware of the issues of encouraging diversity in our workforce, and of encouraging women to break through the glass ceiling ...
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Archive TitlesBaby boomers
Homes that tenants can extend as their families grow – surely it can't be social housing? It can in the Netherlands.
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Yorkshire associations make plans for merger
West Yorkshire-based Chevin Housing Association has begun merger talks with Sheffield-based Hallam Housing.
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Tough questions must be asked
Race and how to approach it is a question housing providers have debated and reviewed on many occasions. As a result, the sector's record on diversity in the workplace and consideration of tenant needs and beliefs is second to none. The 64 associations that specialise in black and minority-ethnic tenants ...